Mitsui Sumitomo Marine Management (U.S.A.), Inc.

Mitsui Sumitomo Marine Management (U.S.A.), Inc's (MSMM) highly skilled consultants, who are strategically located throughout the United States, have the experience, training and professionalism to provide risk management solutions to meet your business needs. We offer a variety of innovative risk management and safety services with the goal of reducing loss frequency, enhancing productivity, and facilitating communication. Our customized services cover these areas:

General Safety Consulting
Industrial Hygiene
Ergonomics
Commercial Property
General Liability
Commercial Vehicles
Loss Control Management

Safety Consulting
Our Loss Control professionals bring practical and innovative solutions to your business. Our professionals begin with a complete assessment of the loss potential for your operation. We then work with you to develop procedures and programs to enhance safety and productivity at all levels of your organization. Our training and education programs can help your employees, line management, supervisors, safety directors, and risk managers recognize the importance and benefit of loss control, and assist in defining and carrying out their roles in this effort. Our services include:

Technical Research
Safety Program Development
Safety Committee assistance
Help with Regulatory compliance
Plant self-inspection program
Perception Studies
Team Building
Construction Safety Services
Forklift Operator training
Employee training, and more............

Industrial Hygiene Services
Mitsui Sumitomo is committed to helping our customers reduce or eliminate hazards associated with occupational exposures to chemicals and physical agents. Our industrial hygienists have the skills, experience and tools needed to help you recognize, evaluate and control these exposures and to achieve and maintain compliance with regulatory requirements. To accomplish these goals, customers can receive assistance with:

Development of Industrial Hygiene policies and programs
Interpretation of regulatory requirements
Review of existing IH programs for effectiveness and compliance with regulatory requirements
Monitoring of airborne contaminants and physical agents in the workplace
Noise level surveys
Evaluating the performance of engineering controls
Performing indoor air quality or other investigations

Ergonomics Services
Ergonomics offers practical solutions to workplace problems that cause or contribute to cumulative trauma disorders (CTD's), back injuries and muscular strains or sprains. To identify these problems, which originate from a mismatch between human capabilities and job requirements, our ergonomic specialists conduct detailed task analyses. Design recommendations are then developed to fit job requirements to worker capabilities, resulting in increased productivity, quality and employee morale and reduced frequency and severity of employee turnover rates and absenteeism.

Our ergonomic services include:

Training to all levels in the organization including management, office & production workers, engineers, etc.
Job & workstation design reviews
Work & material handling assessments
Ergonomic program development and implementation

Commercial Property Services
Mitsui Sumitomo is committed to helping our customers protect their physical assets. Our property specialists have the knowledge and experience necessary to help our customers design and maintain the physical conditions of their facilities, and their fire protection and detection devices. Our services include:

High value and highly protected risk (HPR) property conservation services
Developing and reviewing plant self-inspection programs
Providing fire protection systems training
Consulting on protection requirements for new and existing buildings
Witnessing fire protection system acceptance tests
Sample programs for hotwork, system impairments and disaster planning
Reviewing burglar alarm systems/physical security protection

General Liability Services
Ensuring the health and safety of the general public can be a very daunting task. If not effectively identified and controlled, hazards could lead to devastating losses that would adversely affect your operations. Our Loss Control professionals can help evaluate hazards and provide management planning tools that can be used to prevent these losses. Our services include:

Consultation on Fire Life Safety Requirements (NFPA 101)
Development of Self inspection programs
Accident investigation
Assistance in emergency and disaster planning
Consultation on products liability issues

Commercial Vehicle Services
Studies indicate that over 93% of vehicular accidents are caused by driver error. Our Loss Control Professionals can help our customers develop a safe driver program that ensures that qualified individuals are hired and that they are provided with the proper equipment. Some of our services include:

Driver training programs
DOT/State regulations consulting
Assist with vehicle maintenance program development
Developing an accident investigation process
Developing a road observation program

Loss Control Management Services
Mitsui Sumitomo's goal is to assist our customers in developing the necessary internal controls to improve their efficiency and loss experience. We firmly believe that the key ingredient to success lies with senior management, along with line and staff management. Individuals at these levels must commit to a course of action with specific objectives that are communicated to all employees. Our Loss Control professionals can help an organization transition from maintaining safety for the purpose of ensuring regulatory compliance to managing safety in the same proactive manner in which other business priorities, such as productivity and quality are managed. The following services are available to improve safety performance, reduce injuries and thereby enhance productivity:

Loss Control Management training
Supervisor's Safety training workshops
Accident Investigation training
Accident Reduction System
Audit programs
Perception Studies
Incentive Programs