Client Testimonials

Brian J. Denk Director - Safety and Property Conservation Risk Management Department Sara Lee Corporation - Chicago

Sara Lee is a global Fortune 100 company with an active Risk Management Department. We pride ourselves with our HPR property conservation programs, low loss ratio, participation in the NFPA standards making process, active membership in SFPE, ASIS , ASSE, ATAP and other related trade and standards organizations. We are responsible for property conservation at approximately 1,000 facilities around the world, totaling over 20 billion dollars in property coverage.

One of the key members of our property conservation program includes the professionals at Matrix Risk Consultants. All of their consultants are an integral part of our program to help to keep our facilities protected to the point where we have one of the lowest loss ratios in our various industries. Our principal consultant, Alan Rodeck, is intimately involved in our facilities, participating in our loss control seminars and our testing programs at UL. He travels throughout the world acting as our eyes and ears and is well known and respected by our loss control managers everywhere.

Matrix consultants don't just take the information included in past reports for granted. They verify all recommendations, sprinkler densities and water supplies. Their varied expertise helps us evaluate hazards and risks at our food, beverage, apparel and light chemical facilities. We can rely on them for bringing new products and codes to our attention as well as offer suitable and practical protection alternatives. Their web site, www.MatrixRC.com is always available to us and offers timely and seasonal tips. Their Client Access Center allows us to go to the latest reports, diagrams and information about our facilities.

Matrix also offers a number of unbundled risk management programs and strategic alliances with companies offering very important loss control services such as: infrared scanning, boiler/machinery reliability, combustion control safety testing and engineering, to name a few. The addition of these alliances helps to round out our loss control programs.

Matrix is a company we trust and one that is definitely a major part of our property conservation program.

Sandy Black Director, National Risk Management Performance Food Group

Since partnering with Matrix Risk Consultants in 2003, Performance Food Group has been thoroughly satisfied with the professionalism, flexibility and attention to detail Matrix has offered. We have used their audits and related recommendations to identify risk and prevent loss, monitor and document facility impairments, improve our hotwork monitoring program, improve the reliability of our fixed fire protection systems and educate our operating company teams nationwide about property conservation.

From a Risk Management marketing perspective, using the database tools and reports provided by Matrix, we have been able to clearly demonstrate to prospective insurance companies that we take Property Loss Control seriously and are making progress in completing recommendations and reducing our exposures. With their help, we have been able to present PFG as a great risk, resulting in decreased property premiums.

In the 2005/2006 policy year we took Matrix's advice to set up a corporate driven infrared inspection program of our electrical equipment at each facility, performed by Predictive Service, a strategic alliance partner of Matrix. This program has not only met, but exceeded our expectations. Shortly after implementing this program, a critical electrical hazard was identified and repaired. We credit this one finding with saving our company a potential loss of nearly $20 million.

Matrix is a great technical resource and partner and they have been an awesome addition to our Risk Management team! If you are looking to establish a long term relationship with a highly professional and extremely responsive loss control firm, I suggest you give them a call.

Matrix Risk Consultants has been providing property loss prevention services to Dana Corp. in the U.S. and Canada for over 30 years.  We have depended on their expertise to help keep our operations safe for our employees and to keep Dana a reliable supplier for our customers.