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Vending Business And Liability Insurance

Vending Business Insurance is a specialized area of Insurance. This is dealt with under the heading of Business Insurance.

As a point of interest I myself do run a vending business and it took me quite some time to find a good company that would actually organize a comprehensive policy that catered specifically for a vending company. One that would not also put me out of business as a result of the premiums.

With a vending business there are many different areas of business to take into account

As an example of this someone may have an ice cream barrow for the summer. This type of vending when out and about on the street presents a different set of needs as far as insurance and cover are concerned, than say a company with Gum ball machines sited outside shops or malls.

Health and Safety Insurance

Health and Safety is a major concern with vending, depending on the type of machines you may have

For example, again you could be vending ice cream on the streets or Hot Dogs from mobile carts. This would present a totaly different Health and Safety issue than say, someone in a call center vending sealed cans of soda or pop.

Then again we have another scenario where you have to take a heavy vending machine up some stairs requiring the use of a specialist piece of stair climbing equipment.

Vending Machine Damage Insurance Policies

You have a nice vending business set up with machines in various locations in your neighborhood, like small businesses or even larger ones with a few hundred people in a building. So you are happily going in a few times a week, whatever your schedule dictates. One day you go into a building and you find the machine has been vandalized. This has rendered the machine inoperable and also dangerous and someone has cut themselves badly on the broken machine.

Can you see it really is a specialist insurance that is needed to cope with this situation, one that also will not break the bank. The machine would have to be covered so as to cover the cost of repairs. The Public Liability side would need to be covered. Your loss of earnings while the machine was down would need covered. The person who is injured would, in these litigious times likely want to be compensated. So the list goes on. Without adequate and proper cover you could be out of business in a very short time indeed.

Transporting Money Needs An Insurance Policy

Something that often squeezes under the radar is the question of money, as in coinage.

This is very heavy and bulky as in most cases it is made up of coins of quite small denominations. This has to be collected from the machines and then transported to your premises to be counted and bagged. When this is done it has to be transported again to the bank.

Do you see the implications there with all that money from different machines, needing collected and transported needs a great deal of thought as to how you go about it.

So it is a burden on Health and Safety and Insurance needs to be in place and carefully tailored to specific needs. Even down to the vehicle used has to be insured to carry that money.

Vending Stock Liability Insurance Policies

This goes without saying really. What happens if a member of the public falls ill due to for example a bad sandwich that they got from your vending machine?. Maybe something in a frozen meal they vended from you. It does not even have to be your fault that things go wrong, it happens.

Anyway I hope this has given you food for thought so to speak!. If you are in the vending business or thinking of getting into vending, then consider very carefully the risks and get proper insurance cover in place.

This article has not covered everything but should serve to make you aware of at least some of the Insurance Pitfalls involved in a Vending Business. Do your research very carefully and Please Please do not cut corners with your Vending Insurance Cover.