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Your Comprehensive Guide to Corporate Travel Safety
Overseas travel, particularly business travel, can be seen as glamorous by the uninitiated. In reality, it can be fraught with risk. For those climbing Mount Everest, risk is part of the experience, but for the average business traveler, danger should not be part of the trip.
The Retailer’s Guide to Handling Safety Issues in the Workplace
If employees feel they don’t have an audience to which they can report safety concerns, they may instead turn to safety enforcement agencies.
These Retail Store Safety Measures May Help Reduce the Likelihood of a Terror Attack
Loss prevention executives have a responsibility to stay plugged into the threat-communication network, such as through a local joint terrorism task force and via contact with industry counterparts and law enforcement.
Active Threat Response: Keys to Success
A fortunate trend stemming from unfortunate roots is a movement for companies to get ahead of the curve of active threat response.
What Would a Threat Management Unit Look Like in the Retail Space?
A few years ago, Alisha Bromfield, a Home Depot employee, was strangled and killed by her supervisor while the two were traveling to a wedding together.
The Retailer’s Guide to Handling Safety Issues in the Workplace
In the spring of 2017, a Goodwill outlet store in Sacramento failed to train workers and respond to safety hazard warnings, which resulted in...
4 Ways You Can Transform Retail Loss Prevention Training
Prior to 2012, Bloomingdale’s was doing what most retail organizations do when it comes to retail loss prevention training and safety education—relying on a...
Building the Foundation for a Strong Logistics Loss Prevention Department
Once, a distribution center supervisor told me about their former logistics loss prevention manager. During management meetings, this fellow took great pride in informing...
Protect Young Workers from Retail Accidents and Safety Hazards
June, which is National Safety Month, is an appropriate time to focus on young workers, as they head out of school and into the...
De-escalation Training Program Addresses Disruptive Behaviors
Addressing disruptive customer behavior and de-escalation training efforts has become a topic of great interest to retailers across the globe amidst growing concern over...