SWAN's Shield Demonstrates Safetylogic On-line Management Solutions at HITEC

Workplace safety programs soar with Safetylogic tools; Web-based solutions minimize insurance premiumsand reduce related administrative time 50% or more

Denver, Colo. - June 26, 2001 - SWAN's Shield on-line insurance and risk management business today, at HITEC 2001 in Orlando, began demonstrating the power and ease of Safetylogic Web-based safety-program management tools accessible at www.swanhost.com.

Exhibiting at Booth No. 320 at the Hospitality Industry Technology Exposition & Conference, held June 26-28 Orlando's Orange County Convention Center, SWAN offers the Safetylogic ASP solution shielding hospitality companies and independent properties from skyrocketing insurance premiums. In use at more than 50 properties, Safetylogic is a proven performer that typically reduces by 50 percent or more the administrative work stemming from safety programs, said Gail Wilson, SWAN VP - Shield Insurance & Risk Management.

SWAN combines the resources of Richfield (hotel management), Sceptre (reservations management), Shield (on-line insurance and risk management), Source (on-line and off-line procurement) and Solve (a software Application Services Provider).

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Wilson said Shield's Safetylogic solution is a high-tech/high-touch solution designed to help companies minimize time, headaches and costs associated with manual management of workplace safety and insurance programs. "With Safetylogic, typical safety management duties such as conducting audits, adding and tracking action items, following up on bulletins and questionnaires, and running reports can be fully executed on-line," Wilson said.

"Safetylogic gathers, distributes, reports and archives safety management information that can be accessed anytime, anywhere Web access is available," she said. "Just as important, the Safetylogic's on-line subscriber system also offers an on-line OSHA log providing all the information necessary for legally binding forms."

Wilson said Safetylogic eliminates most of the costly paperwork and time-consuming administrative tasks associated with safety program management. "Safetylogic is a particularly useful program for larger companies with multiple locations, but provides significant benefits with immediate ROI for independent properties as well," she said. "By permitting local auditors to file OSHA-approved compliance documents electronically, Safetylogic reduces the likelihood of violations and dramatically reduces company's travel expenses associated with field audits.

"The Safetylogic solution enables subscribers to cost-effectively communicate between corporate headquarters and remote business locations, creating interactive real-time communications between sites and allowing for easy on-line data entry and extraction.

"With Safetylogic, a multitude of safety issues now can be addressed on-line in a quick and user friendly fashion that enables each site to synchronize with corporate safety management directives," Wilson said. "Safetylogic also is instrumental in helping to develop additional corporate safety program directives by retrieving and tracking repeat issues and OSHA recommendations and set new policies across the company or at specific sites.

"Safetylogic helps hotels significantly reduce insurance premium costs by reducing OSHA violations and workplace instances that also crimp operating margins and service delivery through lost time on the job and eroding employee morale in unsafe environments," she said. "Additionally, with Safetylogic, fewer safety managers will be stuck behind desks filling out paperwork, and there will be no more action items 'slipping through the cracks' or guesswork about federal and state regulations."

Safetylogic provides program consistency, an enterprise-wide standard of communication, multiple-site feedback archiving and reporting capabilities, and real-time on-line distribution of all safety management materials. Safetylogic's extensive on-line resource library allows safety managers with the click of a mouse to print and distribute forms and checklists used for reporting, auditing, inspecting and training activities covering the full gamut of safety and risk management issues.

Marketed to hospitality by SWAN's Shield Insurance & Risk Management business, Safetylogic also provides a suite of secure on-line training solutions offered 24/7/365. In addition to the Safetylogic solution, Shield also provides extremely competitive property and casualty insurance, and employee benefits packages.

"Safetylogic is a complete solution to safety management and risk control," Wilson said. "The unique system provides properties with all of the Web-based tools they need to identify, assess and mitigate safety and related insurance risks - while bolstering program efficiency and employee satisfaction and retention," she said.

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Lodgian, an Atlanta-based owner operator of about 120 hotels, uses Safetylogic for safety training, documenting safety committee meetings, targeting safety training by region and function, auditing and inspecting, tracking bulletins and implementing anon-line OSHA log. The company, which also realizes a bevy of benefits through Safetylogic's on-line reports and surveys, reported its workplace accidents are down 50 percent.

Clark Souers, Director of Human Resources for the Millennium Resort Scottsdale, McCormick Ranch, said Safetylogic has cut his administrative work in half and been an invaluable tool to mitigating risks and costs throughout the property. With 125 guestrooms and 51 villas, the golf resort employs 150 people full-time.

"Safetylogic gave us the ability to really organize and automate our entire safety program," Souers said. "Now, thanks to Safetylogic, I can even complete and distribute my safety committee meeting minutes immediately following each gathering.

"Safetylogic empowers anyone with any device capable of accessing the Internet to quickly and easily capture, enter or update safety-program information, guidelines and reports," he said. "We've only been using it for four months, and I don't know what I would do without it. Any property that hasn't at least surfed the site to test drive the capabilities of Safetylogic's impressive on-line resource library and extensive reporting and communicating capabilities is missing out on an enormous opportunity."



SWAN Inc. is a global provider of one-stop shop integrated e-business solutions to hotels, backed by strong customer service levels. The company's core competencies span a comprehensive palette of on-line and off-line hospitality services, including: hotel management, reservation distribution, on-line insurance, risk management, and on- and off-line procurement. In addition, SWAN makes available a host of software products in an affordable Application Service Provider network, delivering property-management, sales-and-catering, yield-management and human resources functionality.