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What & Why

What is MEMIC EPLI? It is affordable employment practices liability insurance (EPLI). If you are a Maine policyholder, you can select this endorsement when you buy your workers’ compensation through MEMIC. It is not sold separately....

Blog Start the Year Off on the Right Foot by Preventing Slips and Falls

With the dawn of a new year, let’s all start off on the right foot by keeping our feet underneath us when afoot.  MEMIC has posted a plethora of safety blogs on slips, trips, and falls and rightfully so as this trilogy of hazards constitut...

Blog Top 10 Safety Tips of 2018

Last year MEMIC celebrated our 25th anniversary of working to provide the best workers’ comp insurance by focusing on workplace safety and the compassionate treatment of all workers. Our safety blogs keep getting better and better, here are our...

Blog OSHA Enforcement with no Respiratory Hazard PEL- The General Duty Clause Applies

Many safety professionals have been asked how OSHA handles situations where an employee is exposed to a chemical substance with no published OSHA permissible exposure limit (PEL).  OSHA recognizes that the PELs listed in the 1910.1000 tables are...

Blog Safety Leadership for the New Year

While thinking about resolutions for the new year, I came across a great article in Safety+Health Magazine by Steven Luttrull about being an intentional safety leader. One great resolution to consider is becoming a safety leader for your organization...

Blog Caught in the Line of Fire

Sitting at a hibachi table watching the teppanyaki chef go through the “throws” of his show, a hard-boiled egg unexpectedly rolls off the side of his spatula and plummets on a collision course trajectory into a saucer full of secret sauce...

News MEMIC Issues Ice Alert for Friday Morning for Northeast - Caution, Salt & Sand Recommended

PORTLAND, ME, January 23, 2019 – This is a MEMIC ICE ALERT requesting all employers and property owners from Maine to Western New York State to heavily sand and salt all sidewalks, pathways, stairs and parking lots – locations m...

Blog OSHA Increases Penalties and Changes Electronic Reporting

Although we all know the wheels of progress turn slowly, especially at the federal government level, there are occasionally a few updates for those concerned with OSHA regulation.  We seemed to have gotten a two-for-one deal this week from OSHA....