Houston partner Gregory C. Ulmer was featured in “Communication Breakdown Among Culprits in Mishaps,” a column in the September 10-16, 2010, Houston Business Journal Energy magazine. The column focused on the importance of emergency preparedness for today’s companies.
“Companies can employ specific safety measures, such as emergency action plans, in an attempt to prevent and minimize industrial accidents,” Ulmer noted. “When an industrial accident occurs, a company should have a comprehensive well-developed emergency action plan in place tailored to the company’s specific operations.”
The column also addressed today’s economic situation and the possible impact on company safety. “Challenging economic times ... do not necessarily correlate with the number of industrial accidents,” he said. “Instead of using the economic downturn to divert resources away from safety, companies can use this time to elevate the role of safety by placing a greater focus on overall operational efficiency and reliability.”
Ulmer also provided specific steps a company can implement for crisis management and accident prevention. The bottom line, Ulmer pointed out, is that “Companies have to make safety a top priority.”
At Baker Hostetler, Ulmer represents a wide variety of clients in wrongful death, general tort litigation, premises liability, products liability, toxic tort, professional liability and commercial litigation matters.
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