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Conducting active shooter training across your organization is not a small task, especially if your company extends across large geographic areas. Rather than leaving your employees to fend for themselves with PowerPoint presentations exclusively on workplace violence and active shooter planning, consider using these tips to make enterprise-wide training successful. 1. Use workshops to highlight …
6 Tips to Make Enterprise-Wide Active Shooter Training SuccessfulRead More
Active shooter planning helps your organization mitigate the risks and damages associated with active shooter incidents. Unfortunately, your active shooter plans are incomplete if you do not consider third-party victims or witnesses to the event. In other words, your team needs to understand how to help customers and visitors respond, as explained by the Department …
Caught in the line of fire: 8 ways to help consumers respond to an Active ShooterRead More
It’s easy to look back on the bad things in life and think of how you might have handled things differently. Yet, an active shooter incident is not something to reflect on only after it happens. There is a connotation that every active shooter plans to commit an attack for weeks or months in advance. …
Few events can be more terrifying than facing an active shooter in your business. Unfortunately, the number of active shooter scenarios has risen to a point where statistics are available. Per the U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational and Safety Health Administration (OSHA), active shooter incidents are classified as a type of workplace violence, and in …
The recent active shooter events in Orlando, San Bernardino, Paris, Munich and beyond have provided some important lessons for every human being. If we learn from these lessons and respond in a proactive manner, those hundreds of lives will not have been lost completely in vain. Those who work in enclosed facilities can draw especially …
Reducing your workforce through a series of layoffs is never easy. Laid off employees and their families suffer. The employees that remain become frightened for their own prospects and upset for their former colleagues. Managers scramble to figure out how to hit their targets with a reduced staff. Something that often gets lost throughout the …
Minimizing the Threat of Violence when Planning a Reduction in ForceRead More
If your organization is stretched as thinly as most, it’s easy to overlook workplace violence policies. After all, you have a lot on your plate that’s more time-sensitive. Workplace violence strategies can wait until everything has calmed down. Sadly, workplace violence remains a constant threat. Below are four recent cases of workplace violence that hit …
When organizations put together their internal policies and plans, it’s easy to overlook workplace violence. It’s certainly a concerning thought, but it isn’t something your particular organization really needs to worry about. After all, you’d rather spend time educating and training your employees on something that adds a little more value. Unfortunately, this train of …
Why Your Company Needs Strong Workplace Violence PoliciesRead More
