Hurricanes are often associated with the warm weather of summer, but few realize that hurricane season doesn’t peak until mid-September and won’t end until Nov. 30. Even though major storms have been relatively scarce this year, Jewelers Mutual is familiar with “the calm before the storm.”
At Jewelers Mutual we truly hate to hear about a jeweler who suffers a loss and has no insurance because missed payments caused the insurance policy to lapse. In our experience this is rare … but it is nonetheless heartbreaking each time it happens.
As hard as you work to prevent a robbery, sometimes you can’t avoid this nightmare. To increase your chances of staying safe, we recommend sharing with your staff the safety tips shown below.
Remember, no amount of merchandise or cash is worth your life. Goods can be replaced; your life, and the lives of your staff and customers, cannot.
You know the importance of taking your annual physical inventory in order to keep track of your stock levels and track any missing or misplaced items, but what effective jewelry inventory management practices do you employ for the other 364 days of the year?
At the end of a busy day, do you ever check your stock, or do you simply pack it up, lock it up, and then head home?
Jewelers’ Security Alliance (JSA) in the U.S. and Jewellers Vigilance Canada (JVC), two of the leading providers of security advice and services to the jewelry industry, regularly underscore their shared assertion that a jewelry business’s need to have appropriate types and adequate limits of insurance coverage underlies all of their loss-prevention and security recommendations.
