Introduction
By now, you have all seen Hillsborough’s new risk management policy. It is important that all employees of the Town understand their roles in this policy by helping identify risk and safety issues which could result in injury, infrastructure damage, or other human and financial loss to the town. Our intent is to review our claims data and the information brought to us by you, our residents, and others periodically to identify our most significant areas of risk and develop goals to address them. To make this a manageable, focused process, we have begun with five significant areas of risk

Significant Risk Exposures
1. Every organization which operates vehicles, public or private, has a substantial risk of human and vehicle loss. Vehicle Accidents are the number one cause of workplace death in the United States and a significant source of injury and death for non-employees. For this reason strengthening our vehicle operations risk control program is a big priority.

2. Serious accidents have occurred involving our parking strips due to tree root or other damage. So we have identified walkway and urban forest management as two other areas of risk on which to set our goals.

3. We have also decided, based on the potential risk, to strengthen our practices around contractor selection. Though contractor-related issues haven’t been a major source of accidents or claims for us, we contract many of our operations but remain responsible for who we select and how we manage our projects.

4. Other areas in which we could benefit from implementing some common best practices in the short run include road maintenance and police documentation

5. Historically, The Town of Hillsborough has had an informal risk management organization to address identify and mitigate risk to the Town. Formalizing more of our programs and institutionalizing our already