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From our comprehensive coverage, to support through a claim or providing you advice with a risk and safety lens, to sharing knowledge with the goal of scaling right across the Reciprocal and beyond – Like the image conveys, HIROC is around every corner for you.

HIROC is supporting a pan-Canadian research project funded by the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) to explore the psychological distress experienced by Environmental Service Workers during the COVID-19 pandemic. Please reach out to [email protected] to learn more about how your organization can participate.

Last fall, we called on students and early career researchers (ECRs) to explore design solutions that address clinical deterioration; one of the most pervasive global healthcare issues. 

The competition aimed to 

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This Alert is intended for healthcare Information Technology (IT) Teams - ensuring necessary patches to address vulnerabilities have been applied in your environment.

Water damage continues to be the number one property loss driver for the healthcare industry.

Your property insurers, HIROC and FM Global, have collaborated to provide the most effective resources and guidelines when it comes to creating, maintaining, and enacting your liquid damage emergency response plan. 

This advice is based on learning from our history of losses, scientific research, and our engineering knowledge. 

A few months ago, a call to action for human factors and ergonomics specialists making an impact on patient safety was announced in anticipation of the 2021 International Ergonomics Association Congress. 

What resulted was some amazing stories – and now, those stories will have a platform at the Congress this June.

Register for the Congress today!

Dr. Daniel Pepe is a family doctor, and the primary care digital lead for the Western Ontario Health Team.

His list of accolades includes a recent Bright Lights award from the Association of Family Health Teams in Ontario (AFHTO), for an advanced COVID-19 self-assessment tool that connects patients directly with doctors. 

There’s no doubt he’s achieved in his field and given back, but that wasn’t always the plan for Dr. Pepe.