Managing Risk and Insurance

To ensure the viability of your housing assets, managing risk and having the right insurance is critical.  Below you’ll find some resources to help you identify the types of insurance coverages are available, how to best minimize your risk and how to engage your residents as partners in building safe, secure places to live.

 

Training

Liability and Property Loss Prevention

HSC’s new risk management course helps you take control by providing you with the hands-on knowledge and tools to implement your own risk-control program. Learn from the pros and find out how to conduct your own risk control inspections to prevent damage to your property and potential injury to your staff and residents.

 

Who should attend: Property managers, superintendents, housing administrators, and maintenance staff

 

Note: This course is offered exclusively to housing providers, who purchase their insurance through HSC Group Insurance program, and to Service Manager staff.

 

Managing Risk

The Managing Risk course is an excellent overview of the major risks housing providers face on a regular basis. Since this workshop is the foundation for the other workshops HSC offers, it is highly recommended as the starting point for learning about risk management.

 

Who Should Attend: Senior Administration Staff, Senior Managers, Department Heads, Property Managers, Board Members.

 

Emergency Response Planning

When disaster strikes, you must act quickly. But quick, effective action requires a plan. This course provides core guidance on the actions necessary in emergencies that could endanger life or property, so you’re not guessing what to do in a high-stress, life or death situation.

 

Who Should Attend: Board members, Housing Provider Management Staff, Resident Relations Coordinators, Operations and Maintenance Staff.

 

Business Continuity Planning

While the likelihood of a disaster occurring is uncertain, every housing provider should develop and write concise and comprehensive Business Continuity Plan that addresses all critical operations of the organization and its essential services. This Business Continuity Planning Workshop will assist housing provider staff and board members with the process of business continuity planning and management.

 

 

Tools/Resources

• HSC Group Insurance Forms
• Tenant Insurance Forms on HSC Subsidiary website
• Managing Risk, Engaging Your Residents:  Videos Series

 

How HSC Can Help You

• HSC Group Insurance members have access to a wide variety of optional coverages, exclusively design to protect social housing providers.  Contact us to learn about optional coverages that will help you better manage risk
• As the sub-broker to the HSC Group Insurance Program, HSC subsidiary SoHo Insurance offers practical risk management advice; insight into what’s worked for housing; and responsive hands-on support when you need it
• HSC subsidiary, SoHo Insurance, offers a tenant insurance program that is a low-cost, hassle free insurance solution for residents of social housing. This affordable plan protects residents from loss or damage to personal property from fire, theft, and water damage and pays additional living expenses if they are forced to leave their home because of a covered loss