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Digg it UP - Making a Business Decision To Prevent Incidents of Violence in the Workplace
Timing is everything. Hate to be late? The early bird gets the worm.Hesitation, when it comes to marketing, can mean the difference between making a sale and walking away empty handed. Success in many things we do is dependent on how fast we can process information in order to do something. Response time can be critical when you’re trying to start a business and while you’re trying to stay on top of one that is already in full swing.Examine where you might be hesitatin
3. Developing Your Workplace Violence Prevention Program...
When developing your workplace violence prevention program, certain steps in the suggested process are required if one is to validate the actions to be taken.
- Identify a need for the workplace violence prevention policy.
- Form a committee to collect all of the security related business requirements that affect the business.
- Use the committee to create the written security policy to include hiring, termination, rules for acceptable be
Survey the crowd at any trade show, and one trend immediately makes itself apparent. Attendees are getting younger. The infamous Baby Boomers are preparing for retirement, and Gen X’ers have moved into upper management positions. Now we’re exhibiting for Generation Y. The members of Generation Y were born between 1977-1994. It’s a huge demographic, with over 68 million individuals, 40% of which are already employed full-time. While it’s always unwise to indulge in sweeping ge
1. Making a Commitment in Preventing Workplace Violence...
2. Why the Concern...?
3. Developing Your Workplace Violence Prevention Program...
1. Making a Commitment in Preventing Workplace Violence...
As we approach the beginning of our traditional holiday periods, I wanted to continue keeping the emphasis on the relevant topics of Workplace Violence Prevention and Workplace Security Awareness. Workplace Violence continues to remain on the top three lists of concerns for executives, security directors and those responsible for its prevention.
In the Business & Legal Report, September 21, 2005 edition, Paul Viollis, President of Risk Control Strategies made a presentation at the National Safety Council's Congress & Expo on the topic of Workplace Violence. He said, "With all the available data on workplace violence, no employer can claim credibly that it had no idea of the risk of workplace violence, including domestic violence." He further said, "Employers and safety managers must mitigate the risk of workplace violence by maintaining a "standard of care," which includes having a comprehensive policy on workplace violence, training employees on what is acceptable and unacceptable behavior at work and adhering to best practices of security and access control."
Because of these concerns, I got all or most of my gray hair worrying about Mr. Viollis' very points as applied to the little to no attention the small to midsize business community seems to receive until something happens. Why wait for the aftermath when ample time exist now to prepare properly by taking proactive measures?
2. Why the Concern...?
From a business perspective, Workplace Violence is debilitating at minimum and disastrous at worst. Once the contributory factors are identified, one needs to look at how the behavior adversely affects the businesses bottom line. Therefore, a disruptive act of violence can literally put a business out of business.
The metrics to consider in arriving at the conclusions are based on lower productivity, reduced profitability, poor morale, reduced performance, increased absenteeism, higher sick leave costs and faster personnel turnover, increased employee grievances, investigative resources and time spent and an increase in compensation claims. Of critical concern is the affect of business interruption and continuity related to the crime scene and business disruption. What happens to the operation and those employees involved? What about the possibility of a civil court award for failing to provide a safe workplace or the serious injury of an employee at the workplace or while working?
3. Developing Your Workplace Violence Prevention Program...
When developing your workplace violence prevention program, certain steps in the suggested process are required if one is to validate the actions to be taken.
- Identify a need for the workplace violence prevention policy.
- Form a committee to collect all of the security related business requirements that affect the business.
- Use the committee to create the written security policy to include hiring, termination, rules for acceptable be
Any business that does not give customers VIP service will be out of business before they realize it. One of my clients went to buy a new car from a local dealer she knew personally through the business community. She called ahead to explain what she wanted but, when she got there he kept her waiting. He did not have the make she requested, and suggested she check back with him tomorrow. She did, and did again the following day, and the day after that. Three days later he t
Because of these concerns, I got all or most of my gray hair worrying about Mr. Viollis' very points as applied to the little to no attention the small to midsize business community seems to receive until something happens. Why wait for the aftermath when ample time exist now to prepare properly by taking proactive measures?
2. Why the Concern...?
From a business perspective, Workplace Violence is debilitating at minimum and disastrous at worst. Once the contributory factors are identified, one needs to look at how the behavior adversely affects the businesses bottom line. Therefore, a disruptive act of violence can literally put a business out of business.
The metrics to consider in arriving at the conclusions are based on lower productivity, reduced profitability, poor morale, reduced performance, increased absenteeism, higher sick leave costs and faster personnel turnover, increased employee grievances, investigative resources and time spent and an increase in compensation claims. Of critical concern is the affect of business interruption and continuity related to the crime scene and business disruption. What happens to the operation and those employees involved? What about the possibility of a civil court award for failing to provide a safe workplace or the serious injury of an employee at the workplace or while working?
3. Developing Your Workplace Violence Prevention Program...
When developing your workplace violence prevention program, certain steps in the suggested process are required if one is to validate the actions to be taken.
- Identify a need for the workplace violence prevention policy.
- Form a committee to collect all of the security related business requirements that affect the business.
- Use the committee to create the written security policy to include hiring, termination, rules for acceptable be
As a former national sales manager in the pharmaceutical industry, I’ve seen my share of resumes from interested applicants for pharmaceutical sales jobs over the years. Of course, I’ve also used resumes of different types for my own career.Sometimes, I see resumes where job seekers have already included specific names of individuals as their references, usually near the end of the documents. On many other resumes, a brief statement such as ‘References to be supplied upon reque
Because of these concerns, I got all or most of my gray hair worrying about Mr. Viollis' very points as applied to the little to no attention the small to midsize business community seems to receive until something happens. Why wait for the aftermath when ample time exist now to prepare properly by taking proactive measures?
2. Why the Concern...?
From a business perspective, Workplace Violence is debilitating at minimum and disastrous at worst. Once the contributory factors are identified, one needs to look at how the behavior adversely affects the businesses bottom line. Therefore, a disruptive act of violence can literally put a business out of business.
The metrics to consider in arriving at the conclusions are based on lower productivity, reduced profitability, poor morale, reduced performance, increased absenteeism, higher sick leave costs and faster personnel turnover, increased employee grievances, investigative resources and time spent and an increase in compensation claims. Of critical concern is the affect of business interruption and continuity related to the crime scene and business disruption. What happens to the operation and those employees involved? What about the possibility of a civil court award for failing to provide a safe workplace or the serious injury of an employee at the workplace or while working?
3. Developing Your Workplace Violence Prevention Program...
When developing your workplace violence prevention program, certain steps in the suggested process are required if one is to validate the actions to be taken.
- Identify a need for the workplace violence prevention policy.
- Form a committee to collect all of the security related business requirements that affect the business.
- Use the committee to create the written security policy to include hiring, termination, rules for acceptable be
As a “glued to the TV” youngster, I watched countless cowboy shows and used to run around the neighborhood spouting cowboy clich?s like, “We’ll cut ‘m off at the pass.”That hokey phrase came to me from somewhere back in my memory the other day when talking to a client who was in trouble with a customer over a delayed delivery. The customer was going to be furious and my client was hoping the problem would just blow over without a confrontation. But somehow we knew that it just
The metrics to consider in arriving at the conclusions are based on lower productivity, reduced profitability, poor morale, reduced performance, increased absenteeism, higher sick leave costs and faster personnel turnover, increased employee grievances, investigative resources and time spent and an increase in compensation claims. Of critical concern is the affect of business interruption and continuity related to the crime scene and business disruption. What happens to the operation and those employees involved? What about the possibility of a civil court award for failing to provide a safe workplace or the serious injury of an employee at the workplace or while working?
3. Developing Your Workplace Violence Prevention Program...
When developing your workplace violence prevention program, certain steps in the suggested process are required if one is to validate the actions to be taken.
- Identify a need for the workplace violence prevention policy.
- Form a committee to collect all of the security related business requirements that affect the business.
- Use the committee to create the written security policy to include hiring, termination, rules for acceptable be
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3. Developing Your Workplace Violence Prevention Program...
When developing your workplace violence prevention program, certain steps in the suggested process are required if one is to validate the actions to be taken.
- Identify a need for the workplace violence prevention policy.
- Form a committee to collect all of the security related business requirements that affect the business.
- Use the committee to create the written security policy to include hiring, termination, rules for acceptable behavior. rules for progressive disciplinary action and the role of leaders in the process.
- Conduct a Critical Vulnerability Risk Assessment of the business requirements and practices.
- Publish and implement the security policy.
- Train the workforce on workplace violence prevention, security awareness and accountability.
- Create your threat assessment and crisis management teams.
- Test, improve, measure compliance and measure the program's effectiveness.
It is important to note that a lack of compliance leads to security lapses that create the negative factors cited above.
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