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NAVIGATING MUNICIPAL RISK
By carefully navigating the sea of potential threats, steering past the mistakes others have made, and looking ahead to benefiting from loss preventive risk control programs and opportunities, the costs of your municipal risk management program can be reduced. Finally, with ICRMA, you are in control!
 

"I've been partcipating in ICRMA for over 20 years and the organization has never failed to provide innovative, cost effective and competitively priced solutions to all my coverage needs. Not only does partcipation in ICRMA provide my city cost-effective insurance solutions, participation also provides a network of other risk management professionals that I can comfortably reach out to when I need advice on how best to approach some developing situation."

Robert A. Blackwood
Director HR & Risk Mgmt
City of Monterey Park

 

 

VISION STATEMENT

To be the risk management Joint Powers Authority "Pool of Choice" in California.

Announcements
February ICRMA University - Friday, January 29, 2010

Our February ICRMA University session is designed to provide you with the basics you need to know to ensure the safety of your employees who are involved in excavation regardless of their depth. You will learn about:
 
1)    Basic Overview for your Staff,
2)    Cal-OSHA Trenching & Excavation requirements
3)    How to deal with contractors
4)    Basic overview and importance of soil testing
5)    Documentation and forms
6)    How to protect your city
 
Register today at: http://www.surveygizmo.com/s/234156/icrma-trenching-excavating  Please note, this registration is for the morning University session only.
 
Who Should Attend?
Risk Managers                                       Risk Control Personnel
 Public Works Management                   Parks & Recreation Management
 
 
Date, Time & Location:
 
Thursday, February 25, 2010
 
8:30 a.m. – 9:00 a.m.             Sign-In and Continental Breakfast
9:00 a.m. – 11:00 a.m.            Presentation
11:00 – Noon                          Lunch provided
 
Location
 
Sheraton Cerritos Hotel
12725 Center Court Drive
Cerritos, CA  90703
 
Cancellation:
Please note that ICRMA University sessions are offered to ICRMA members free of charge.  However, if you register and fail to attend without cancelling your registration by 12 noon, Monday, February 22, 2010, your city will be assessed a $50 fee to cover the cost of materials and food reserved for your use. If you must cancel, please consider sending another city employee to attend in your place to avoid the $50 fee. If you send another employee in your place, please contact Chris Retama directly to make the change in order to avoid confusion regarding the cancelation. Do not register your replacement via the online registration process. You can contact Chris Retama at cretama@brsrisk.com or call her at (800) 541-4591, extension 2215.
 
ICRMA/PARSAC ADA WORKSHOP
 
It is time to register for the ICRMA/PARSAC ADA Workshop. The ADA Self-Evaluation Checklist (76-pages) provided to you by ICRMA is complex, and this workshop will help you understand how to make the best use of this valuable tool and how to apply it to the Transition Plan template.

 
 
Register now at: http://www.surveygizmo.com/s/234652/icrma-parsac-ada  This registration is only for the ADA Workshop and does not include the ICRMA University session.
 
Be sure to go to http://www.icrma.org/MembersOnly/tabid/2276/Default.aspx  to access the ADA Self-Evaluation and Transition Plan documents. After you have entered the “Members Only” page, open the ADA Self Evaluation and Transition Plan link listed under “Quick Links.” Please download, print, and bring the documents to the workshop with you. We will not provide the documents at the workshop. We recommend that you three-hole punch the documents and place them in a 3-ring binder. Tab documents have been provided so that you can also print the tabs. Printing and installing the tabs in the appropriate location of your binder will facilitate the ease of your participation in the workshop.
 
If you haven’t registered for access to “Members Only” yet, you can do so from http://www.icrma.org/MembersOnly/tabid/2276/Default.aspx. Be sure to print and bring the documents with you to the ADA workshop.
 
Who Should Attend?
 
City Planners
Public Works Management
Risk Managers
Risk Control Personnel
Anyone Involved in Assisting the City meet ADA accessibility requirements.
 
 
Date, Time  & Location:
 
Thursday, February 25, 2010
 
11:00 a.m. – Noon                 Lunch provided
11:30 a.m. – Noon                 Sign-in
Noon – 4:30 p.m.                   Presentation
 
Location
 
Sheraton Cerritos Hotel
12725 Center Court Drive
Cerritos, CA  90703

 

ICRMA now offers its members a new streaming video service. The advantages of streaming video include:

  • Immediate access 24 hours a day, 7 days a week
  • No shipping and handling charges
  • Accessibility from any computer that has a web browser, with no download process involved.

The safety training library includes over 300 OSHA, DOT, and EPA compliance topics in multiple languages. You can access the videos through the "Members Only" page. You will need to log in with your user name and password. Simply open the link to the video of your choice to immediately view the video. Each video includes a facilitator guide, quiz, and PowerPoint presentation. This service, provided by Bickmore Risk Services, replaces the old video lending library, and has the advantages of no waiting for videos, no shipping them back, and no handling charges.

 

 
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