Karen L. Edwards, RCS COO
Three-year Study IDs Top 5 States for Hail Losses
By Karen L. Edwards, RCS Editor. The National Insurance Crime Bureau (NICB) recently released the results of its three-year study to determine the top states with the largest hail losses. The NICB study involved a review of claims data from ISO ClaimSearch® which showed that there were just over 2.8 million hail ...
Are Rooftop Farms the Future?
By Karen L. Edwards, RCS Editor. Rooftop in Paris to feature 150,000 square feet of vegetables. A Paris-based urban farming company, Agropolis, designed the rooftop farm that will sit on top of a redesigned entertainment complex, according to an article in Fast Company. While rooftop farms do exist in the U.S. ...
What’s it Like Being a Dispatcher at Tremco WTI?
By Karen L. Edwards, RCS Editor. A dispatcher that works from home isn’t something that you see often in the roofing industry. At Tremco’s Weatherproofing Technologies, Inc. (WTI) dispatchers working from home is the norm. The last few months we’ve been talking to people in different positions at WTI to learn more ...
RCS Influencer Ken Kelly to Fly Emergency Supplies to Bahamas
By Karen L. Edwards, RCS Editor. Abaco in the Bahamas was hit hard by Hurricane Dorian and here is how you can help. Many of you know Ken Kelly as the President of Kelly Roofing in Naples, Florida. What you may not know about Ken is that he is a licensed pilot ...
Slip on a steep roof leads inventor to build remote inspection robot
By Karen L. Edwards, RT3. The Roof Rover is a robotic roof inspection device weighing just six pounds that keeps workers safely on the ground during inspections. When Mike Slawinski was living in Atlanta, a friend of his asked him to help do some roof inspections. Mike wasn’t a fan of heights ...
No More Waiving Deductibles for Roof Claims in Texas
By Karen L. Edwards, RCS Editor. If you’re working storms in Texas, waiving deductibles and free roofs are against the law starting September 1. Waiving deductibles for homeowners in Texas has been going on for many years. In fact, in 1989 a law was passed to end the practice, but it was ...
Canada Policy Extends Residency to Migrant Workers
By Karen L. Edwards, RCS Editor. A recent parliamentary report on labor shortages in Toronto urged the government to take action to protect workers with precarious or no immigration status. Recognizing the economic contributions of its long-term resident construction workers in the face of a growing labor shortage, Canada passed a temporary ...
Lightning Awareness for Outside Workers
By Karen L. Edwards, RCS Editor. A lighting strike can severely injure or kill workers yet is if often overlooked as an occupational hazard. In the United States each year, cloud-to-ground lightning strikes occur 20 – 25 million times and over 300 people are struck by lightning. There have been an average ...
Service is Key to Happy Clients and Good Relationships
By Karen L. Edwards, RCS Editor. It takes a network of partners to provide consistent service and maintenance for customers with assets spread across the U.S. Our focus at the Coffee Shop for our influencers this month is service and maintenance. While our influencers have great insights from their individual companies, we ...
Things were Hot in July on RCS
By Karen L. Edwards, RCS Editor. Here’s what’s trending on RoofersCoffeeShop® this past month. It’s probably no surprise that two of our more popular articles last month were related to the heat! Working outside in the heat brings health and safety risks to crews and it’s critical to have a plan in ...
