Peerless Insurance offers Summer Safety Series for Commercial Customers

News Release
Contact: Christopher Goetcheus, 774-279-5923
or [email protected]

Peerless Insurance™ offers Summer Safety Series for
Commercial Customers
Safety presentations in a dozen locations throughout the summer

          Keene, N.H. (June 8, 2009) – Peerless Insurance, a Liberty Mutual Agency Markets regional company, is offering its commercial policyholders a series of free safety presentations this summer geared towards reducing risks and making workplaces safer.

          The half-day sessions concentrate on construction and light industry, offering three presentations for each discipline. The industry presentations include:

• Return to Work & Premium Impact – How to better control premiums through preventing and managing losses with an effective risk management strategy that utilizes loss prevention and claims management measures;
• Disaster Recovery – Examines operational preparedness for natural catastrophes or emergency scenarios, including vulnerability assessments and other resources for developing or improving a disaster recovery plan; and
• Violence in the Workplace – A danger to employees and a threat to a business’ reputation, this presentation explains the signs to watch for and how to manage and defuse the risk of an incident.

  The construction presentations include:

• Contractual Risk Transfer – Learn the potential liabilities assumed by general contractors or subcontractors through the use of specific language in contracts. This presentation looks at different risk transfer techniques as well as other protective measures;
• Dig Safe – State laws require notification of utilities before digging projects begin, but those requirements can vary from state-to-state. Participants will learn the requirements and procedures for their states; and
• Slips, Trips and Falls – Second to overexertion injuries, these injuries are the second most costly and frequently reported workplace claims. Participants will learn about contributors to slips and falls, what surfaces are better than others, and how to identify problem areas with the use of a slip meter. 

 
        Peerless Insurance customers interested in attending a safety presentation should contact Ms. Laurie Nickerson at (603) 358-4624 or send an e-mail to [email protected] for registration and venue information. All presentations begin at 8am and include continental breakfast in the following cities:

Portland, ME – June 23
Syracuse, NY – June 25
Burlington, VT – July 14
Hartford, CT – July 16
Springfield, MA – July 21
Manchester, NH – July 23
Buffalo, NY – July 23
Hackensack, NJ – July 28
New Haven, CT – August 4
Albany, NY – August 6
Marlton, NJ – August 11
Weston, MA – August 13

About Peerless Insurance

With underwriting companies dating back to 1901, Peerless Insurance offers property and casualty products, including a comprehensive set of commercial coverages, distributed only through appointed independent agents.  Headquartered in Keene, New Hampshire, Peerless Insurance offers insurance products in Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Rhode Island, and Vermont. 

Peerless Insurance is part of Liberty Mutual Agency Markets, a business unit of Liberty Mutual Group, consisting of property and casualty and specialty insurance carriers that distribute their products and services primarily through independent agents and brokers.  Liberty Mutual Group ranks 86 on the Fortune 500 list of the largest U.S. corporations based on 2008 revenues.  The company has financial strength ratings of A (Excellent) from the A.M. Best Company, A2 (Good) from Moody’s Investors Service, and A- (Strong) from Standard & Poor’s.

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