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Subcontractor Insurance: 7 Policies Subs Should Consider for Their Business

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Business insurance can help mitigate occurrences or disasters that can severely impact or destroy the good standing of your business. Let’s take a look a subcontractor insurance: when it’s needed, what happens if a sub goes uninsured, and what policies subs can use to protect their businesses from risk.

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What Is an Insurance Endorsement? A Contractor’s Guide

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When working in construction, your insurance policy gets issued as a fairly standard contract. Like a basic construction agreement, you can upgrade or downgrade your insurance policy just as a customer might do with the fit and finish of a building. What is an insurance endorsement? How insurance endorsements work.

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What Is a Certificate of Insurance (COI) for Contractors — and When Do You Need One?

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To help your business remain viable, contractor’s insurance should be a crucial part of your financial strategy. Insurance also puts other parties’ minds at ease when they want to hire you as a specialty contractor. A certificate of insurance (COI) is a valid form used to prove that you carry the appropriate insurance policy.

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7 Ways to Improve Construction Site Safety

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Unsafe practices on the site could lead to construction delays , legal fees to defend violations , and breach of contract if safety issues are non-compliant with contract terms. . Safety starts at the top of the organization. Work with your insurance provider. 7 best practices to improve construction site safety.

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Seven Construction Associations You Should Consider Joining

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Other benefits: Some associations provide financial benefits, such as discounts to car rentals, insurance, supplies and other items. Here are some established construction-related organizations that can provide some of the above advantages. For those, see the subsequent list of specialty organizations.) Specialty Organizations.

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What Should You Do When There is an Accident at Your Construction Site?

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This should include identifying chain of command for notice purposes, identifying internal investigation team members, identifying who will be a company spokesperson, and identifying your risk management team (insurance and legal). Organize post-accident activities. Act diligently when an accident occurs.

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Job Order Contract Execution Guide – Sample Template

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The following template is provide for sample purposes only and should not be used a legally bidding document without through review and modification by appropriate Owner legal counsel. The ORGANIZATION NAME Procurement Authority will authorize a Job Order (JO) for performance of work, or request additional information/changes.

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