Workplace Violence Awareness, Prevention, and Response: Using the Power of Threat Assessment Teams to Keep Employees and Facilities Safe

OVERVIEW

Workplace violence can involve threats from current or former employees; the spouse or partner of a current employee; an angry visitor, customer, client, taxpayer, or vendor; or a stranger or trespasser with dangerous intentions. Business leaders need to know how to respond to these threats.

The best approach come from forming a Threat Assessment Team and developing a Threat Assessment Program. This webinar discusses the value and efficacy of these teams and their role in responding to workplace violence.

WHY SHOULD YOU ATTEND

Dr. Steve Albrecht uses empowerment over fear to make the participants in this webinar feel comfortable about an uncomfortable subject like workplace violence (e.g. no blood and guts videos or frightening stories).

AREAS COVERED

In this fast-paced and tool-based session Steve covers these issues:

• The value of staffing a Threat Assessment Team (TAT) and developing a Threat Assessment Program
• TAT response criteria for various threat-related events
• Training requirements for the TAT
• Getting the law enforcement support for workplace violence response
• Pre and post-response tools

LEARNING OBJECTIVES

Learn how to create, staff, and train an internal Threat Assessment Team (TAT), to respond to all potential threats of violence to or from current or former employees, or all threats aimed at disrupting the business.

WHO WILL BENEFIT

• All Executives
• Directors
• Managers
• Supervisors especially in HR, Security, Risk Management, Safety, Legal, IT, Facilities Departments

SPEAKER

In 1994, Dr. Steve Albrecht co-wrote Ticking Bombs, one of the first business books on workplace violence. He interviewed a double murderer for the book. Steve is one of the country’s leading experts on violence prevention and on dealing with high-risk employees, customers, and taxpayers. His training firm specializes in threat assessments, site security surveys, and employee coaching.