Throughout the United States, restoration professionals are under a microscope. This is true in the fields of water damage restoration, mold remediation and fire restoration.

Knowing what your high-risk operations are will go a long way toward sustaining your business over time. Every day, the owners of restoration firms take on risks in the hopes of making a profit.

It continues to amaze me every time I hear an owner complaining about software they purchased that did not work out for them.

There are a number of different types of personal protective equipment (PPE) useful for worker protection. Occupational Safety and Health requirements state that employers must provide protection against recognized hazards that can result in serious physical harm or death.

I have been active in the restoration industry for over 23 years. The past 13 years have been spent as an advisor to restoration companies in North American and, more recently, Australia.

In every industry, there are business owners who are hands-on, deeply involved in the day-to-day operations and will be so until the day they die, no matter how successful they become.

In 2010, R&R sat down with Kent Berg, director of the National Institute of Decontamination Specialists and founder of the American Bio-recovery Association, to hear what he had to say about the state of the bio-recovery industry.

Last year, R&R asked some of the industry’s foremost manufacturers to describe some of what goes on behind the scenes when it comes to developing software for the restoration contractor.

In my years of working with restoration companies in the U.S., Canada, the U.K. and Australia, one of the most common threads tying them together is...

Most of us have been exposed to the Golden Rule: Do unto others as you would have others do unto you.