Podcast Tomorrow! Holistic Wellness for First Responders
Join us tomorrow at 9 for the next PRISM Perspectives Podcast! Guest host Charles Williams, PRISM Director of Risk Control, will be talking with Lieutenant Elise Spina Taylor of the Miami Beach Police Department about the ‘STEPPs’ to creating a holistic wellness program for first responders. 

And don't forget the Q&A session afterward (not recorded). Have a question for the guests? Submit a question ahead of time to make sure it gets into the discussion! 
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Vendor Impersonation Fraud and How to Avoid it
Email based fraud attempts continue to impact PRISM members. One method that we continue to see is vendor impersonation fraud. One of the most common forms of this is when a scammer submits an email to a member posing as a vendor. The scammer will submit an invoice and/or direct that future payments be sent to a specific account that is accessible by the scammer. Some entities have acted upon these emails and processed payments that have unknowingly gone to scammers. We have seen this happen for payments in the low five figures all the way up to several million dollars.
 
A simple, yet effective, way to avoid paying a scammer is to have your Finance Department contact any vendor who attempts to make a change to payment information via email. A simple phone call to the vendor to verify the new instructions can help your entity to avoid making an incorrect payment and will also help avoid a cyber claim. For more information on what your entity can do to avoid email based fraud claims, please click here. We encourage you to share this information with your Finance Team and any others within your organization who might benefit from receiving this information.
Now Available On-Demand: Complying with the Revised Cal/OSHA Emergency Temporary Standards
Three weeks after the Revised ETS was effective, and a month after the "reopening" of California economy, how are public entity employers grappling with the compliance landscape? What best practices prevent inadvertent compliance lapses? Which strategies work best, and what requires an immediate fix? 

This webinar by Patricia Eyres, of the Eyres Law Group, LLP on PRISMtv will focus on enforcement strategies for everything from mask and distancing requirements to vaccination documentation protocols. We will also focus on how to sidestep harassment or discrimination claims and take disciplinary action for employees (or managers) who fail or refuse to abide by the emergency standards. The webcast will provide best practices for legally managing the range of processes required by the revised ETS. Watch on-demand!
Did You Know...NIOSH Created a Well-Being Questionnaire?
The National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health Worker Well-Being Questionnaire (NIOSH WellBQ) was designed to help employers, among others, understand the well-being of workers and target interventions to improve worker well-being. Read more on PRISM's blog.
 

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Committee Meetings
GL2, 7/23
Mem Serv., 7/28
Emp. Bene., 7/29
CRC2, 8/11
Legislative, 8/12
CRC & Underwriting, 8/25
Prop, 9/2
Exec, 9/2
 
COVID-19 Resource Page
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