During this difficult economic period, it is more important than ever to make sure that your employment policies and employee manual are comprehensive, as well as, technologically and legally updated. The professional small business employer and dental professional who assumes that once the practice has a set of policies/manual in place they are "covered" is being too simplistic. If tools need to be sharpened, professional journals are published monthly and software improvements change every #.0, why not apply the same thinking to managing and setting rules for one of your most important business assets-your employees. If your manual/policies are more than five years old, do they properly address: cellphones and pda's, texting, twittering, recently enacted Red Flag legislation? If not, you would probably benefit from a review or "audit" of your employment policies and manual.