Acuity Can Help Give Work Comp Costs a Trim

BY LEAH COFTA, SENIOR WORKERS’ COMPENSATION CLAIMS REPRESENTATIVE

Acuity is a market for work comp on beauty parlors and barber shops! These are among Acuity’s top lines of service businesses. Acuity understands the unique exposures that these businesses face and provides services that can help improve safety, reduce claims, and lower work comp costs.

Although you might not think this is a high-hazard class of business, safety is a key concern for barbers and beauty shops. Employees face not only the hazards common to other service businesses, such as slips, trips, and falls, but also the potential for puncture wounds, cuts, burns, repetitive motion injuries, and more.

These shops should provide initial and ongoing employee training in best safety practices to mitigate risk, and Acuity is here to help! Our loss control representatives assist our customers with establishing safety protocols and training guidelines, improving ergonomics, and creating safer work environments overall. They also keep up to date with the latest safety practices to reduce the possibility or severity of a loss. Acuity also offers a wide variety of online training materials and videos that can help your beauty parlor and barber shop customers with everything from basic safety orientations to learning how to control the cost of a workers’ compensation claim.