From the field to the front office:
July 2026 Highlights

July 22, 2026

• Fireside Chat: Cassandra Geoghegan, Traffic Management — Decentralizing Risk to the Field
• Upcoming Webinar: Incident & Safety Modules Walkthrough on July 22
• On-Demand Webinar: Aclaimant×TrustLayer: Compliance Signals/Blind Spots
• From David's Desk: Two topics that are resonating with safety and risk management leaders
• What we're hearing: Top 5 reasons everyone is shopping for a new risk management platform all of a sudden

FIRESIDE CHAT: CASSANDRA GEOGHEGAN, TRAFFIC MANAGEMENT - DECENTRALIZING RISK TO THE FIELD

Most risk software is priced to keep people out. Cassandra Geoghegan, Senior Manager of Compliance & Risk at Traffic Management, decided that was the wrong incentive and switched.

Traffic Management runs ~1,200 vehicles across the country supporting utilities, construction zones, and tree-trimming operations. Under their legacy per-license platform, only a small corporate team could log incidents. With Aclaimant, every branch manager files, uploads photos, and attaches repair estimates from the field freeing Cassandra's "small but mighty" team to focus on the 2026 initiatives that matter: dash cams across the entire fleet, and an overhaul of internal safety policy.

• The "per-license bottleneck" and why it silently kills safety cultures
• What decentralized incident reporting looks like across 1,200 vehicles

Watch the fireside chat here

UPCOMING WEBINAR: INCIDENT & SAFETY MODULES WALKTHROUGH ON JULY 22, 2026

JULY 22, 2026: 11:00 AM CST

Aclaimant's Morgan Woosnam and Annie Hagy are hosting a foundational deep-dive into the Incident and Safety modules; everything you need to streamline workflows, improve safety tracking, and get more value out of the platform.

We'll cover incident management basics (logging, tracking, and closing incidents end-to-end), safety module best practices for proactive risk mitigation, hidden shortcuts and tips inside the platform, and live Q&A with the team.

• Can't make the live session? Register anyway the full recording will land in your inbox after the event.
• Register even if you can't attend the recording ships to your inbox
• Bring your questions: the team will be on live to troubleshoot

Register for the webinar here →

ON-DEMAND WEBINAR: ACLAIMANT × TRUSTLAYER

TrustLayer co-founder Jon Fohr sat down with Aclaimant's Alex Chillow (VP Sales) and TrustLayer's Sharon Fox (VP Partnerships) to unpack how modern risk teams operate before, during, and after a loss.

The conversation gets specific: why the first 24-48 hours after an incident make or break a claim, why a great response program IS your best prevention program, and how the right technology eliminates the "Beautiful Mind spreadsheet" sprawl of siloed systems, TPAs, and Outlook folders.

Includes a real client example that recovered $20M+ thanks to a well-built compliance program.

The handoff moment: when an incident becomes a claim
Where AI delivers real value in compliance — and where hype outruns reality

Watch the webinar On Demand →

FROM DAVID'S DESK: WHAT'S RESONATING WITH SAFETY AND RISK MANAGEMENT LEADERS

Two posts from LinkedIn that resonated with risk management and safety leader this month:

1. "An hour a day of admin, until it's a person's whole week." A story about a new manager at a 900-person manufacturing operation who did the math - a workers' comp incident a day, on average, and roughly 250 hours a year swallowed by paperwork nobody had decided was acceptable. It just accumulated.

Read the post →

2. "The difference between a Safety Manager and a Safety Director was never the title." A short piece on the practitioner shift that actually matters: managers manage the calendar in front of them, directors manage the pattern underneath it. "One reacts well. The other one sees early."

Read the post →

FROM THE FIELD: TOP 5 REASONS EVERYONE IS SUDDENLY SHOPPING FOR A NEW RISK PLATFORM

We've been talking to a lot of risk management, safety, and claims leaders lately, and the same handful of frustrations keep coming up. We've gathered the top 5 we're seeing.

1. Nobody has one source of truth.

2. Leadership wants trends. The team can barely produce a status update.

There are three more we're hearing just as often, including one about incumbent systems that flat-out weren't built for how these businesses actually run.

Read the full piece →

Want to see a demo of the Aclaimant system for yourself?

Book time with our team here

ONE LAST THOUGHT…

The best risk programs we've seen this year all share the same trait: they push visibility to the edge.

Field teams reporting incidents in real time. Compliance data flowing to the people who need it before the claim hits. Signals moving faster than the blind spots.

That's the operating model. And it's the one worth building.

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