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With 60 % of all new businesses failing to make it past the first year, everybody knows that risk taking is an integral part of running a business. Taking steps to ensure that such risks are measured takes an even greater importance when considering that if 1 an every 4 businesses fail in the first year, the figure reaches court records proportions over the course of 5 years when it becomes 3 out of 5!

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.

Workers operating heavy equipment for example introduce an added element of risk into the equation. Likewise, businesses operating motor vehicle also fall within this category where the human factor becomes a risk.

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.

And so, an employee’s solitary mistake could have a potentially damaging effect on the business in financial terms which could affect its very livelihood and at best could result in a substantial increase in liability insurance premium.

In other words, one employee’s actions can have damaging consequences for the company in terms of reputation and eventual cost of a litigation process.

Of course, mistakes do happen and steps can and indeed must be taken to try and make sure they do not happen in the first place.

It is therefore of vital importance that appropriate pre-screening at the recruiting level be taken in order to ensure that if a mistake does happen, it is not from someone with a history of making such mistakes or worse, someone with court records indicating a criminal past.

We live in a society which takes the liberty and privacy of all citizens very seriously and thus the notion of court records sometimes has disturbing effects on those who are confronted with the task of recruiting a potential employee.

And as we live in litigation’s world where large sums of money are rendered in compensation by courts all over the nation, the responsibility of a business owner lies not with the need to preserve the privacy of potential employees but rather with the absolute necessity to discover every thing there is, before it is too late!

Business owners who might have shown reluctance in searching court records when recruiting may then find themselves in the very uncomfortable situation of having to explain to the other employees who may have lost their job why they did not act with more care before recruiting the worker responsible for their plight.

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