One of the most significant issues facing design professionals involved in construction projects is how to keep workers safe at jobsites. Understanding site safety exposures and how design professionals can appropriately manage their risk and protect the public adds value to the workplace safety culture.
Each client relationship presents a unique set of risks for your firm. This course is designed to provide strategies to evaluate these risks within an organized framework in order to help you assess, manage, and control the risks of working with certain clients, prevent repeating mistakes in client selection, and allow for consistency in client selection.
Understanding the coverage and exclusions in a professional liability policy can be confusing for design professionals and their clients. The goal of this presentation is to explore what uninsurability really means, why it matters to design firms and project owners alike, and look at some problematic contract language commonly seen in Owner-drafted contracts that can cause coverage concerns.
Many design professionals approach their day-to-day activities acting ethically, but thinking little about it as they do so. This course will explore what professional ethics are, where they’re defined, when they’re tested, and what happens when ethical matters are mismanaged.
This course will provide a quick overview of indemnity clauses in professional service contracts, their implications for design professionals, and what design professionals can do to manage and mitigate the risks associated with them.
Why do firms take on projects that they think could be destined to fail? When you spend time analyzing the possibilities, you can start to see future problems. Our approach will guide you through the four steps of risk management—carefully identifying, assessing, managing, and controlling the risks in projects when you’re deciding if pursuing a project is a good idea.
