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Corporate Hosting: Personal Safety for Your Team

'Safety Smarts' – Interactive Personal Safety Class or Presentation

Provide your team with the tools and confidence they need to stay safe. Hosting a safety class or inviting a guest speaker shows your commitment to employee well-being.

Why Host a Safety Class for Your Team?

Many companies think:

"It won’t happen here."
"Our team gets along great."
"Everyone feels safe at work."

But the truth is, conflict and violence can happen anywhere, at any time. It’s our responsibility to ensure that we are prepared—not just to respond, but to prevent dangerous situations.

What Your Team Will Learn:

Situational Awareness: Recognize potential threats before they escalate.
Distance Techniques: Maintain personal safety by controlling your space.
Conflict Avoidance: Understand how to escape a conflict before it occurs or escalates.

How It Works:

Fast-Paced 2-Hour Class: Engage your team with a hands-on, interactive session that equips them with practical skills.
On-Site or Virtual Options: Host the class at your office or book a virtual session—whatever works best for your team.
Expert Guest Speaker: Inspire and educate your team with an industry-leading expert in personal safety.

The Benefits:

Increased confidence and security in the workplace.
Better performance and focus when employees feel safe.
Skills that are valuable at work, home, and in daily life.

Help your team learn how to recognize and escape conflicts before they occur. Reach out today to schedule a class or invite a guest speaker to your next corporate event!

OSHA:

All employers are responsible for adhering to OSHA’s General Duty Clause that states that all employers, regardless of size, must provide a place of employment “free from recognized hazards that are causing or are likely to cause death or serious harm.” In terms of workplace violence, here are some things all employers should do to help protect workers:

Have a written zero-tolerance policy towards workplace violence and develop a written prevention program.
Provide workplace violence training emphasizing what to look for, what to report, and what to do during an actual incident.
Encourage reporting of concerns or specific incidences. Make reporting easy and, potentially, confidential.
Consider using outside expertise to provide threat assessment training and physical security upgrades.

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All forms of workplace violence are on the rise. Half of HR professionals are reporting that their organization has experienced some form of workplace violence incident. This number is up from 36 percent in 2012. And the Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM) now reports that 1 out of 7 Americans do not feel safe at work

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OSHA gives employees certain rights to take action to ensure that their workplace is safe.

For example, workers may file complaints with OSHA regarding unsafe working conditions or other OSHA violations, and you may not retaliate against them for doing so. Workers may also refuse to work when they face imminent danger in the workplace, and, once again, you may not retaliate against them for doing so. Indeed, it is very important that you, as the employer, do not attempt to suppress workers' OSHA rights in any way. Otherwise, you leave yourself vulnerable to fines, penalties, or worse

Employer Responsibilities. Under the OSHA law, employers have a responsibility to provide a safe workplace. ... Establish or update operating procedures and communicate them so that employees follow safety and health requirements.

Employers must provide safety training in a language and vocabulary workers can understand.

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Workplace Violence Is Broken Down into 4 Categories

Loss Prevention Magazine

By Bill Turner, LPC October 21, 2019

OSHA defines workplace violence as “any act or threat of physical violence, harassment, intimidation or other threatening disruptive behavior that occurs at the work site.” OSHA estimates that about 2 million workers report violent workplace incidents each year. The actual number of incidents is thought to be much higher as many events probably do not get reported.

According to the National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH), workplace violence typically falls into one of four categories:

Type I—Criminal Intent. In this kind of violent incident, the perpetrator has no legitimate relationship to the business or its employees.

Type I violence is usually incidental to another crime such as robbery, shoplifting, or trespassing. Acts of terrorism also fall into this category.

Type II—Customer/Client. When the violent person has a legitimate relationship with the business—for example, a customer, client, patient, student, or inmate—and becomes violent while being served by the business.

Type III—Worker on Worker. The perpetrator of Type III violence is an employee or past employee of the business who attacks or threatens other employee(s) or past employee(s) in the workplace.

Type IV—Personal Relationship. The perpetrator in these cases usually does not have a relationship with the business but has a relationship with the intended victim. This category includes victims of domestic violence who are assaulted or threatened while at work.