Property Risk Engineering Services

Zurich Resilience Solutions

Property Risk Engineering Services

Understanding and managing property risk mitigation can seem overwhelming. After all, property losses can be caused by a wide range of risks from severe weather and other natural hazards to fires, vandalism, theft and more. And any one of these risks has the potential to create significant impacts that can hurt your company’s income streams, market position and future growth.

With Property Risk Engineering Services from Zurich Resilience Solutions (ZRS), insights and data can be transformed into meaningful actions to help protect your property — and all that it represents.

Assessing your property risks as they evolve

Property risk assessment begins with a thorough understanding of your risks. ZRS’ team of experienced, skilled Risk Engineering specialists can work with you on coordinated property risk assessments, risk grading and consulting services. With the knowledge gained from these assessments, you can make better-informed decisions and develop stronger risk-management strategies.

Contact us:

(800) 982-5964
risk.engineering@zurichna.com

Protecting property

ZRS aims to empower you in identifying, assessing and proactively managing the complex risks that you face daily, and help prepare you for whatever may come next. We work with you to provide Risk Improvement Actions and loss estimates that support you in managing your risk. We also can help improve organizational understanding of your company’s natural catastrophe risk profile.

Beyond assessments our ZRS professionals perform, we can provide user-friendly tools, including Zurich Self-Risk Assessment and Zurich Risk Snapshot to help enable your business to take the reins on its risk-management planning.

Tailored property Risk Engineering solutions

Property risks impact each business differently, which is why the best risk-reduction planning is specific and focused on your operations and practices. With that view in mind, ZRS can offer a broad array of services and tools to elevate your risk management. Coordinating with you, the services below and others offered by ZRS can be made part of a customized Customer Service Plan.

Property loss control

With the increase in the frequency and severity of major storms, wildfires and other severe weather events, property loss control has never been more vital. But property exposures exist for any business, whether natural hazards are the most pressing risk or not. Loss prevention is the ultimate mission for ZRS, and while our assessments are central to that mission, we also offer other loss-control services that include, but are not limited to:

	Industry benchmarking services
	Fire Protection courses, Seminars and Webinars
	Project management and plan review services

	Online fire protection impairment management
	Loss investigation and root cause analysis

Global coverage and market access

With more than 850 Risk Engineers working across 40 countries and access to a worldwide network of technical expertise, ZRS is ready to help your business wherever it operates. And in an increasingly global economy, ZRS services that help identify supply chain vulnerabilities can help reduce international risk exposures even if your company’s properties are entirely based in the U.S. We can designate regional Risk Engineering resources and help keep you informed of any local compliance-driven risk mitigation requirements.

Superior service, support and technology

Zurich has over 150 years of experience serving a broad range of customers, and our risk professionals have strong backgrounds within the specific industries we serve.

Along with direct consultations, ZRS can work with your company on training to meet multiple levels of organizational risk mitigation needs. And our customers can access cutting-edge digital tools, including My Zurich, Zurich Risk Advisor and our Remote Collaboration tool.

ZRS works hand-in-hand with Zurich’s other knowledgeable specialists in our Underwriting and Claims teams, and leverages support from other teams throughout the company. Working together, we get a more complete picture of our customers’ challenges and a clearer view on cost-effective solutions that can be effective for them. It’s a multi-team effort, but customers enjoy a single point of contact that makes communication clear and simple.

Frequently Asked Questions

What are the most significant property risks facing companies today?

Risks can differ greatly based on property location, operations and many other factors, but it’s fair to say climate change and resulting severe weather impacts are a growing concern for most businesses. The Global Risks Perception Survey in the 2023 Global Risks Report ranked “failure to mitigate climate change” as the top risk over the next 10 years, and “natural disasters and extreme weather events” as the second-highest risk over the next two years.¹ Risks specific to unoccupied buildings are also rising as remote work has become much more widespread in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic. But longstanding risks such as facility fires and vandalism should not be overlooked either.
What is typically involved in Property Risk Engineering services?

As detailed above, risk assessments are the core of property risk mitigation. Property Risk Engineering Services typically include an assessment and quantification of site-specific exposures as well as recommended Risk Improvement Actions to reduce the exposure to risk.
Why is it more important than ever to understand and manage the potential for property and business interruption losses?

Property losses are disruptive to operations and can create immediate business interruption, supply chain challenges, and ultimately impact your customers. The growing climate and unoccupied property exposures mentioned above make addressing this connection more pressing. ZRS’ Property Risk Engineering, Business Continuity Services and Supply Chain Risk Services teams work together to help your organization find the best strategies to manage and help reduce these risks.