Court Records Or Birth Records: One Click Away From Bankruptcy

Taking risks is one of the realities of being in business today. As an illustration of this court records and county records show that 60 % of new startups do not make it past the first year of being in operation (that’s about one in every 4) and over a course of a 5 year period this number rises significantly to three to five.

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But just as every business owner knows these figures , not many pay notice to the facts that other internal factors, as related to the very nature of their specific business can dramatically add to the overall risk factor.

A company operating a fleet of cars for example, or even heavy machinery has an added element of risk given that such vehicles and or heavy equipment have to be operated manually. This human factor adds to the element of risks and in doing so brings a whole new outlook to potential liabilities and real possibilities of legal litigation.

Market forces play a vital role in businesses, and so can human related forces be even more damaging! These human related risks expose businesses far and beyond the confines of its geographical address. As such any business sending employees to customer’s homes, or dealing with children or disabled people or involved in other such interactive activities between employees and customers places itself in a position of added risk, with regards to liability issues.

Indeed in such instances, all it takes is a single error, a poor decision, a poor judgment on the part of a company’s employee to cause problems such that they can have serious consequences and sometimes even deal a fatal blow to the survival of the company.

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Put differently, the actions of a single careless employee can seriously change the delicate balance between success and failure, and plunge the business in a situation which can at best be costly in terms of customer service and or litigation costs, or at worse be fatal to the business.

Whilst it is not possible for a business owner to forecast such problems in order to take appropriate measures every steps of the way to prevent and protect against them, just imagine the additional hassles the business would face if it turned out that the “careless” employee was in fact a person who should never have been hired to begin with had court records been duly investigated as a matter or pre screening before being hired!

What if this person had a recorded history of poor decision making or worse court records that showed a less than perfect history! The tragedy in this case would of course be compounded by the fact that this could have been a totally avoidable situation which should never have been allowed to take place in the first place.

There is always an element of unease when talking about the subject of court records. After all we live in a free society where the privacy of all of us is something we should all be proud of, and thus whenever the issue of background check is raised there is a sense of guilt or discomfort showcasing everyone desire to stay out of other people’s businesses.

But as a responsible business owner, in a world where of lawsuits and legal judgment the question becomes not so much that obtaining court records on a prospective employee may on the surface seem to be inappropriate but rather that not doing so shows a definite recklessness on the part of the business owner!

The right to individual liberties should indeed be protected at all costs but not at the expense of others who rely on the responsibility of their bosses to do everything they can to protect not only their personal safety but also their livelihood!

When the actions of one careless worker with a checkered history threatens the livelihood of others, then obtaining court records or cell phone number on all prospective employees is the very least a business owner should do to protect his business and the job security of the company’s other employees.

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Originally posted 2008-04-25 16:56:25.

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