TruShield Insurance Blog

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What’s in your emergency roadside kit?

Whether it’s a summer rainstorm or icy roads in the winter, hazardous conditions often lead to road closures and long delays in help arriving at the scene of an accident. And although you might have emergency essentials in your personal vehicle, it’s important that your business vehicles are...

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Keeping your laptop safe from thieves

Computer systems, especially laptops, are prime targets for theft because of their small size and portability. To reduce the risk of theft, it is highly recommended that businesses implement and enforce a strict computer policy with specific attention given to laptops.

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How will the new building codes affect your business?

A change in B.C.’s building codes made in 2009 is finally making its way around to the rest of Canada. This change would allow for buildings of six stories or less to be made with wood frames rather than concrete or steel.

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Leave asbestos removal to the experts.

Today, more than 30 years after asbestos began to be seriously regulated, it is by far the biggest single source of work-related fatality claims, accounting in Canada and the U.S. for more than three-quarters of all such claims.

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Contractors are being targetted by cyber criminals.

The attacks on the large enterprises such as Target and Home Depot have resulted in a lot of media buzz over the last couple of years. And while you might think that cybercrime is limited to larger operations like these big box stores, it’s important to note that the root cause of the breach was a...

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