Liquor liability is a huge problem for craft breweries. In fact, it’s among the three most severe craft brewery losses, according to data from The Hanover Insurance Group. Read More…
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Care About Your Brewery Air Quality
Did you know your brewery air quality is very important to the health and safety of its workers, and to the longevity of the brewery itself? Read More…
Lightning Safety & the Craft Brewery
Beall Brewery Insurance reports that, according to the National Lightning Safety Institute, one of the most common troubles facing US businesses today are problems resulting from lightning. A Carnegie-Mellon study found that lightning affects a full third of all US businesses—more than are affected by lightning than by flood, fire, explosion, hurricane, earthquake, or violence. Read More…
Heat Related Illness in the Craft Brewery
Beall Brewery Insurance reports that, according to the Occupational Safety and Health Administration, thousands of workers each year become sick due to exposure to heat. Read More…
Quiet Down!
Beall Brewery Insurance reports that about 30 million workers are exposed to hazardous sound levels on the job, according to data from the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health. Read More…
Focus on the Forklift
Beall Brewery Insurance reports that, according to OSHA, forklifts cause an estimated 85 fatal accidents per year. That’s in addition to 34,900 accidents that result in serious injury and 61,800 that are non-serious. Read More…
Brew Beer, Don’t Waste Water: Reducing Water Used in Brewing
Beer is 95% water, but the amount of water needed in the brewing process adds up to much more than that. According to the Brewers Association, brewers need about seven barrels of water to make one gallon of beer.
Of course, not all that water goes into the actual brewing. But the brewing process is responsible for 25% of a typical brewery’s water usage. Read More…
Digital Solutions—and Challenges—for Your Brewery
When the going gets tough, the tough… pivot. And that’s exactly what craft breweries across the country have been doing. The pandemic has prevented thousands of them from conducting business the way that they, and their customer base, are accustomed to: on-premise. Read More…
Prevent Employee Theft
During this Crime Prevention Month, Beall Brewery Insurance would like to remind craft brewery owners and operators to take steps to protect their businesses from employee theft. Read More…
Wildfire Prevention at the Brewery
A brewery fire is one of the top three most severe losses a brewery can experience, according to data from The Hanover Insurance Group. And this is the perfect time to remind brewery operators how to put wildfire prevention into effect.
Why? Because this year, wildfire is causing more damage.
From January 1 to September 8, 2020 41,051 wildfires raged across the US, compared with 35,386 wildfires in the same period in 2019. About 4.7 million acres burned in the 2020 period, compared with 4.2 million acres in 2019.
Does that mean it’s too late to take steps to prevent wildfire at your brewery? Absolutely not. Read More…
