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  What You Should Consider Before Starting a Delivery Service
  For restaurants, offering delivery can provide convenience for your customers. It can also lead to increased business opportunities for your restaurant.
  However, offering delivery isn't without risk, particularly when it comes to driver safety. When making deliveries, employees could slip, trip or fall going to a customer's door; become the victim of a crime (e.g., robberies); or injure themselves, or others, in an auto accident.
  If your restaurant is starting a delivery service, it's critical to keep these risks in mind and take the proper steps to safeguard your employees and prevent potential claims.
  While delivery services tend to differ slightly from business to business, there are a number of things to keep in mind when it comes to protecting workers. Consider the following tips:
  Offer training to employees to help them identify hazards and strategies they can use to stay safe when making deliveries. This could include defensive driving courses or education on how to respond in a robbery. Above all, it's important to reinforce good driving behaviours by reminding drivers to:
  Review the motor vehicle records of any employee who operates a company-owned or personal vehicle for business purposes. Delivery drivers must be qualified, have a valid driver's licence and have an acceptable driving record.
  Even if you take every reasonable precaution, accidents still happen. In those instances, it's critical that your business is armed with proper insurance. To learn more, contact Access Insurance Group Ltd today.