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Making every step a safe one!
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What might surprise some is
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● High quality to assure long tread life under heavy pedestrian traffic
● Durable and long lasting treads for both indoor and outdoor use
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contact us today!
800-321-4936
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Slip and falls
“The stuff that makes the news is where someone hits a tree
or a celebrity allegedly takes out a doctor while enrolled in a
private lesson. That makes the news, but it’s the slip and falls
that will really kill you,” Thomassie said.
Slip and falls are likely to continue to be a concern, he says,
as ski areas have to contend with ongoing staffing challenges
and the fact that weather conditions can change dramatically
in a matter of hours and even minutes.
As with any business, staff are one of a ski area’s most
valuable assets and ensuring they are protected should be a
priority. One of the simplest ways of doing that, Thomassie
says, is to ensure they are properly trained and monitored by
senior management. Even though lawsuits against individual
staff members are uncommon, he says individuals who have
substantial personal assets may want to consider taking out
a personal insurance policy on top of whatever a ski area or
resort already provides.
Mountain man
A lifelong outdoors enthusiast, Thomassie worked as a trial
lawyer for nearly a decade before getting into his current
career. During that time he was involved in litigation of the
Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, the largest
oil spill in maritime history, and also did a large amount of
work on personal injury claims.
A few years ago, he and his wife took a trip to Park City,
Utah, and immediately fell in love with the area. They decided
to relocate there from Louisiana a short time later and
Thomassie joined Prime Insurance soon after.
“I’m a former liftie and river guide, and I wanted to move
back to the mountains. It didn’t really matter what it was
that I was going to be doing so much as the location,” he
said, laughing.
As much as COVID-19 could impact ski operations this
season, Thomassie doesn’t foresee any looming crisis for the
industry from a traditional risk management perspective.
Still, he says that doesn’t mean ski area and resort operators
can afford to become complacent.
“Complacency is a killer. If you’ve got somebody who walks
past that icy set of stairs every day and thinks, ‘To heck with
it, nobody’s slipped on that thing in a year,’ that’s just an
accident waiting to happen. A lot of risk management can
be boring and formulaic, but there’s a reason that it is put
into place.”
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