Taking risks is part and parcel of the make up of any business nowadays. For example court records show that 60 % of new businesses fail within the first year of business (that’s about one in every 4) and over a course of a 5 year period this number rises significantly to three in five.
But whilst every business owner is usually fully aware of the above figures few realize that other internal factors, as related to the very nature of their specific business can dramatically add to the risk factor.
For example any business operating motor vehicles of heavy equipment has an added element of risk given that such vehicles and or heavy equipment have to be operated by workers who introduce”not easily measurable” elements of human risk factors.
These human factors can reach far and beyond the confines of a business place of work. Indeed any business sending employees to customer’s homes, dealing with children or disabled people or involved in other such interactive activities between employees and customers places itself in a position of added risk, with regards to liability issues.
Indeed in such instances, a single mistake, a bad decision, a poor judgment can have dire consequences as well as raising liability insurance premiums to a level that the company might find difficult to cope with.
In other words, the actions of a single careless employee can significantly alter the delicate balance between success and failure, and plunge the business in a situation which can at best be costly in terms of customer service and or litigation costs, or at worse be fatal to the business.
Whilst it is impossible for anyone to anticipate and take appropriate measures every steps of the way, just imagine the additional hassles the business would face if it turned out that the “careless” employee was in fact someone who should have been checked more thoroughly when first hired!
What if this person had a history of poor decision making or worse court records that indicate a less than perfect past! The tragedy in this instance would of course be compounded by the fact that this could have been a totally avoidable situation, and indeed should never have had to take place in the first instance.
There is always an element of unease when talking about the subject of court records. After all we live in a free society where the privacy of all us is something we should all be proud of, and thus whenever the issue of background check is raised there is a sense of guilt or discomfort show casing everyone desire to stay out of other people’s businesses.
But as a business owner, in a world a lawsuits and legal judgment the question becomes not so much that obtaining court records on a prospective employee may on the surface seem to be inappropriate but rather that not doing so would show a certain recklessness on the part of the business owner!
By all means, individual liberties should be protected at all costs but when other employees stand to lose their jobs because of the actions of one careless worker with a checkered history then obtaining court records on all prospective employees is the very least a business owner should do to protect his business and the job security of the other employees.
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