Improving the Safety and Security of your Organization

Our team of industry experts draw on years of security, safety, human resource and law enforcement experience to provide effective, efficient and sustainable solutions for your organization. Even the threat of violence can be extremely damaging to an organization's morale, performance and productivity, which may also result in increased risk and liability. Establishing and maintaining a violence prevention and response program addresses the negative impacts the threat of violence can create and also has the benefit of increasing workplace balance and employee engagement.  We provide practical and responsible solutions for responding to these complicated issues. We can help your organization address its workplace violence concerns.

What is Workplace Violence?

It is violence or the threat of violence against employees, students, visitors and guests. It can happen in almost setting but always involves a connection to the organization or facility and can range from intimidation, bullying, threats and verbal abuse to physical assaults and homicide, one of the leading causes of job-related deaths. However it manifests itself, workplace violence is a growing concern for school administrators, students, parents, employers and employees nationwide. Click here for some Workplace Violence Statistics

The Problem
There are several factors working against you when it comes to effectively addressing the threat of violence in your organization.  The most significant is that many organizations simply do not have the in-house resources or depth of knowledge to respond to the broad range of complicated issues that the threat of, or an actual incident of violence, can create.

The Solution
We are Human Resources focused security professionals. Our team of experts are well versed in the many disciplines required to address these complicated issues.  We have broken down these issues to the key elements allowing us to help your organization either start (or restart) effective violence prevention, management and response programs.  Regardless of the status of your program or efforts one of our primary objectives is to provide the tools and resources necessary for your team to eventually run these programs on their own.  The five phases of an effective violence prevention program intentionally mirror the steps involved with disaster planning; Preparedness, Prevention, Response, Recovery and Evaluation.

Unique Expertise
Our President has personally responded to several intense incidents of workplace violence, including searching for armed gunman, dealing with an ex-employee "dive-bombing" their former employers building, extremely complicated domestic violence situations and assessed hundreds of potentially violent situations. He has dedicated himself to the study of violence prevention and response and continues to increase his knowlege at every opportunity. He was recently engaged to help several organizations recover from mass shootings and brings this unique experience to help your organization put effective prevention measures into place.

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Workplace Violence Prevention
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