Safety and Workers' Compensation Strategies: To Unleash Productivity and Profits

Discover how several outstanding business leaders leveraged innovative safety and workers’ compensation strategies to unleash productivity and profits. By placing people’s safety at the center of an organization’s culture, with a relentless, laser-like focus, caring leaders will achieve success.

The easy-to-read and compelling interviews provide a treasure chest of insights on how to take your organization to the next level. The leaders interviewed in this extraordinary book explain why safety is an underutilized core value and a true competitive advantage.

Adam Friedlander, president of Friedlander Group, a successful safety and workers’ compensation consulting firm for twenty-five years, carefully selected leaders who share their considerable expertise in a clear and engaging format. This book presents a whole new approach to safety that empowers CEOs, business owners, managers, human resource professionals, insurance and safety advisors and workers’ comp claims specialists.

The experts interviewed include: Paul O’Neill, the 72nd Secretary of the U.S. Treasury, serving from 2001 to 2002, and chairman of Alcoa from 1987 to 1999 Bill O’Rourke, president of Alcoa Russia from 2005 to 2008, senior advisor at Value Capture LLC, and coauthor of The Power of Ethics Stephen Newell, partner at ORCHSE Strategies global consulting that services 120 large multinational corporations on safety, health, and environmental matters, and author of the OSHA Blue Book with one million copies sold David DePaolo, CEO, president, and editor-in-chief of WorkCompCentral.com Brian J. Connor, partner with the workers’ compensation law firm of Weiss, Wexler and Wornow, PC Peggy Crook, vice president of claims and loss control at Federation of Jewish Philanthropies (FOJP) Service Corporation and former director, global claims for Hilton Worldwide Jeffrey R. Fenster, vice president of business development and government affairs at AmTrust Financial Services Inc. and, from 2010 to 2014, the executive director of the New York State Workers’ Compensation Board

Safety and Workers’ Compensation Strategies To Unleash Productivity and Profits is rich with proven and time-tested strategies that generate phenomenal results. You may find yourself re-reading this important book to further benefit from the deep insights.

Adam Friedlander is the president of Friedlander Group Inc., the safety and workers’ compensation leader in New York. After graduating from Rye Country Day School and the University of Denver, Friedlander began a career in insurance in 1983.

The Friedlander Group manages seven workers’ compensation safety groups and has saved members over $400 million in premiums. The Friedlander Group also manages the Workers’ Care Group to enable non-safety group clients improve safety and unleash productivity and profits.

In 2011, Friedlander published How to $ave Big on Workers’ Compensation. He has also published articles on the inherent risks of group self-insured workers’ compensation trusts.