Focus On Bottom Line, RMs Urged

To make necessary advances for worker safety and to reduceworkers compensation costs, risk managers need to redirect theirfocus from regulatory requirements to the bottom line, one losscontrol expert contends.

“If we continue to look at safety and loss control in thetraditional way and think about [Occupational Safety and HealthAdministration] compliance, were nuts,” said Steven Anderson,portfolio executive, risk engineering at Zurich North AmericaServices in Dallas. “Its not about OSHA, its not even about safety.Its about profit.”

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