Case study · Federal
EM385-1-1 readiness: what NAVFAC audits actually test.
Achieving 90%+ compliance on federal audits isn't paperwork volume, it's a handful of systems that hold up under inspection.
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Reading a loss run: what the numbers hide.
Most claim histories are compressed into a summary that obscures the frequency-severity ratio, the near-miss trajectory, and the trade-level pattern. Here's how we take one apart before every renewal.
Field note · Assessment
Five findings we surface on nearly every walk-through.
Framework · Prequal
Beyond the EMR: reading a sub's real safety story.
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Toolkit · Training
New-hire orientation that changes behavior, not just paperwork.
Orientations that reduce first-90-day incidents look nothing like a video and a signature. A practical structure from active programs.
Analysis · Underwriting
The 10-day submission: what the packet contains.
The components of a technical assessment an underwriter can price without pulling additional data. Structure, format, and the details that matter.
Framework · Underwriting
Reading a submission the way an underwriter does.
Where a submission gets shelved, where it gets priced, and where it gets declined. The signals a carrier actually looks for, and what a technical assessment should surface before the file lands.
Field note · Loss control
The three questions your carrier is really asking on a loss-control visit.
Every carrier walk-through is scored against a short list of underlying questions, not the surface checklist. Here is what those questions actually are, and how to be ready for them.
Analysis · Industry
What the ILO 1-in-6 figure actually means for a mid-size GC.
The global 1-in-6 workplace-fatality statistic gets quoted a lot and unpacked rarely. Applied to a mid-size general contractor's actual exposure profile, here is what the number implies, and where controls have the highest marginal return.
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