Mitigating storm damage risks
Storms are an unfortunate part of life for many people and businesses in Australia and the devastation they cause can be catastrophic. Sadly, the recovery from storm damage is often not as quick as people would hope and this can have significant consequences for businesses. We can’t prevent a storm from occurring, but we can take some simple steps to reduce the impact of a storm. The tips below will assist business owners and their ...
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Maintaining personal safety and a safe osteopathy practice
All employers, business owners, contractors and employees have an obligation to create and maintain a safe working environment. And to do this we all need to think about what makes our workplace unique in terms of the risks and the strategies needed to keep it safe. There are a few ways in which osteopathy clinics can pose risks to the personal safety of practitioners, other people who work there and patients. One on one consultations ...
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When patients see multiple practitioners
Guild Insurance regularly manages claims where a patient has been treated by more than one practitioner. This has led Guild to explore how treatment by multiple practitioners may contribute to complaints by patients which can lead to an insurance claim. Evaluating another practitioner’s work It’s quite likely that many natural therapy practitioners will at times treat a patient who’s previously been treated by another natural therapy practitioner. And in some of these cases the practitioner ...
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