Direction should be given to field managers to ensure protection that is adequate but also to prevent plant people from spending on measures that are not cost-effective. Recommendations from inspectors should be analyzed by the risk manager before they are forwarded to the plant involved. L. Keep professionally active . Continual contact with peers is essential. The size of staff depends on what must be done.
Many variables are at work, so comparisons between firms are misleading.
A staff handling benefits will usually have more clerical personnel, a firm handling its own claims will have more adjusters, and so on. Some rough guidelines are as follows. Method One . Half this figure might then be justified as overhead properly allocable to a risk management department. The fact that insured losses are paid out of insurance premiums does not mean they should not be added to premiums for this purpose.