As the song says, this is the most wonderful time of the year. But Beall Brewery Insurance offers a reminder that it can also be a season ripe with liquor liability risk.
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Lightning Safety & the Craft Brewery
Beall Brewery Insurance reports that, according to the National Lightning Safety Institute, one of the most common troubles facing US businesses today are problems resulting from lightning. A Carnegie-Mellon study found that lightning affects a full third of all US businesses—more than are affected by lightning than by flood, fire, explosion, hurricane, earthquake, or violence. Read More…
Heat Related Illness in the Craft Brewery
Beall Brewery Insurance reports that, according to the Occupational Safety and Health Administration, thousands of workers each year become sick due to exposure to heat. Read More…
The Craft Brewery’s Guide to Beer Festival Safety
Beer festival season is here! Does your brewery have sufficient and appropriate insurance coverage to participate in these events without exposing the business to risk?
Temperature Extremes in the Craft Brewery
It’s been a chilly winter all across the country … but cold temps aren’t only seasonal. Beall Brewery Insurance points out that temperature extremes are just part of the job for craft brewery professionals. Read More…
Care About Your Brewery Air Quality
Did you know your brewery air quality is very important to the health and safety of its workers, and to the longevity of the brewery itself? Read More…
A Gift to Your Brewery: A Thorough Insurance Review
This is a great time of year for a craft brewery insurance review–and making any updates necessary to protect your equipment, your workers, and your business as a whole. Read More…
How to Stay Safe in Confined Spaces
Confined spaces pose a significant danger if not approached with care. In 2009, a welder who entered a fermentation tank to seal a crack set himself on fire when he lit his blowtorch in the space, which was oversaturated with oxygen. In 2011, a fermentation tank exploded at a Vermont brewery. (Of course, confined spaces are a risk for reasons other than air quality. In 2010 alone, close to 30 people died in grain entrapment incidents in the United States.) Read More…
Do Your Workers Know Your Brewery Emergency Response Plan?
Business owners already know the importance of having an emergency action plan to help them respond quickly in the event of a natural disaster, work-related injury, or other incident. But Beall Brewery Insurance would like to suggest that brewery owners and operators also have in place a brewery Emergency Response Plan that offers workers a framework to help them respond swiftly and successfully to an emergency. Read More…
Manage Brewery Machinery Hazards
Did you know that incidents involving machinery or tools rank in the three most frequent craft brewery workers’ compensation losses? Read More…
