11 – Contingency Planning, Fire Protection, Emergency Response and Safety

With the advent of OSHA, the attention focused on safety in the workplace created many new attitudes about the place of loss control within the organization. Many companies that had at best paid lip service to concepts of safety that are commonplace today came to see that safety, like security, is good business and that a well-managed loss-control program would produce gratifying savings in a potentially costly area of company operations. But it must be noted that a well-managed safety program goes well beyond simply complying with OSHA standards.