Risk Management Services
Get the benefits of an experienced, highly qualified, bilingual risk manager without the personnel expenses associated with having an employee on staff.
Cote Risk Management provides a full range of services on an hourly, as-needed basis including:
- Conducting Job Hazard Assessments (JHA)
- Developing written safety programs
- Training
- Supervisory leadership training
- Safety culture development
- Accident investigations
- Industrial hygiene assessments: Noise, dust, vapors, etc.
OSHA Compliance
OSHA has visited your facility and cited your organization for a number of violations. WHAT DO YOU DO NOW?!
Cote Risk Management helps prepare you for the informal hearing process, with the mission being the reduction or elimination of the citation costs.
Mock OSHA inspections are invaluable in reducing exposure to catastrophic losses. Our knowledge and understanding of OSHA requirements enables us to perform assessments and provide documentation that protects you and your team.
Risk mitigation efforts we perform include:
- Comprehensive and detailed area-specific site evaluations.
- Development of specific OSHA citations & photographs for your use.
- Suggesting improvements and/or modifications to existing or anticipated conditions with the goals of improved productivity and quality, while enhancing safety.
OSHA 10-Hour Training
OSHA 10-Hour Training is a two-day event for new employees. This program is specifically designed for hazard avoidance on the job site. Although OSHA considers this a voluntary program, Cote Risk Management highly recommends it for entry-level workers in construction, demolition, building development and other fields in the construction industry.
OSHA 30-Hour Training
OSHA 30-Hour Training is a five-day event best accomplished one day a week over a period of five weeks. This course presents complete information on OSHA compliance issues and is designed for supervisors & foremen with leadership and supervisory responsibilities over team members.
OSHA Training Topics:
- Fall protection
- Electrical safety
- Power tools
- Ergonomics
- Material handling
- Cranes in construction
- Rigging
- Transportation
- Job site security and roadway flagging
- Fire protection
- Ladders & Scaffolding
- Aerial lifts
- Excavation
- Confined spaces
- Health hazards of Asbestos, silica, lead & noise
- Mobile equipment
- And more…
Authorized MSHA Trainer
Annual refresher training of employees working at open pit mines
Each miner must receive a minimum of 8 hours of annual refresher training at least once every 12 months. Training must include instruction on changes at the mine that could adversely affect the miner’s health or safety. Refresher training must also address other health and safety subjects relevant to the mine.
Ergonomic Evaluations and Associated Training
Improve Efficiency & Productivity
The intention for ergonomic evaluations should always be with an eye for improving efficiency and productivity.
We specialize in improving efficiency and productivity while improving the employees ability to work safely. Manual material handling is one of the leading causes of injury. What I often find is that employers can make simple, inexpensive changes to the work arrangement that will achieve enhanced worker effectiveness, efficiency and safety
Safety Culture Development
A Process of Engaging Supervisors and Key Employees to Build a Positive Safety Culture
- Is your organization achieving a level of safety performance that meets or exceeds your expectations?
- Are front line supervisors adequately engaged in the safety process?
Senior managers often ask us, “How can we create a safety culture? How do we imbed safety into our culture so it is not just another flavor-of-the-month program?”
This question speaks to a sincere interest to integrate safety into the organization’s overall production and quality efforts. We start the process by measuring managers’ & employees’ perception of safety effectiveness on a number of levels. The eye-opening experience that results from this process engages the entire organization in the culture question, ultimately leading to clearly articulated, actionable steps toward improving the culture.
Our safety training programs are designed to transform the culture from ‘not my fault’ to a culture of everyone owning their personal responsibility.
My experience in leadership positions enables me to bring real value to your team. As a professional trainer and executive for over 35 years, I provide engaging, relatable educational programs in leadership and supervisory development training and behavior-based safety coaching, training & mentoring.
Credentials
About Daniel S. Cote
Daniel S. Cote is the principal at Cote Risk Management. A thirty-five year veteran of the safety, loss control and risk management industry, he brings diversity in leadership and practical boots-on-the-ground experience. His fluency in French and English is appreciated by our Canadian clients as well.
A strong believer in education both from a learner’s and an educator’s perspective, Dan is highly educated and has never stopped learning and sharing his knowledge.
Dan’s Degrees and Certifications:
- UL CRP-Property Certification: Underwriters Laboratory Certified Risk Professional 2015
- CPCU Certification: Chartered Property Casualty Underwriter 2009
- MBA Southern New Hampshire University 2007
- MS Occupational Safety, Illinois State University 1983
- BS Industrial Education, University of Southern Maine 1980
Professional Positions Held by Dan:
- Regional Risk Management Consultant – People’s United Bank
- President – MEMIC Safety Services
- Senior Vice President of Safety Consulting and Risk Control – MEMIC Insurance Company – Portland, ME
- Loss Control Regional Manager – USF&G Insurance Co.
- Branch Loss Control Manager – USF&G Insurance Co.
- Safety Consultant – USF&G Insurance Co.
- Adjunct Professor – University of Maine – Safety
- Teacher of Industrial Arts – Fort Kent, ME Jr. High School.
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