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. Read More
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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. Read More
Active Threat Response: Keys to Success
By Jay Hart
A fortunate trend stemming from unfortunate roots is a movement for companies to get ahead of the curve of active threat response. Read More
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. Read More
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. Read More
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 number of standard approaches like posters, classroom training, huddles, and pre-shift morning rallies. But these approaches just weren’t working.
As I contemplated this situation, I realized we Read More
Building the Foundation for a Strong Logistics Loss Prevention Department
By Frank Devlin
Once, a distribution center supervisor told me about their former logistics loss prevention manager. During management meetings, this fellow took great pride in informing the management team of his dedication and skills for discouraging potential warehouse theft perpetrators.
He would recall the days when he hid in a dumpster during the Read More
Keeping Safety and Security Top of Mind
By Jacque Brittain, LPC, and Kelsey Seidler
Following are a few article summaries that can provide you with a small taste of the original content available to you every day through our daily digital offerings, which are offered free through LossPreventionMedia.com. In addition to our daily newsletter, a comprehensive library of original content is available to our Read More
Protect Young Workers from Retail Accidents and Safety Hazards
By Loss Prevention Media Contributor
June, which is National Safety Month, is an appropriate time to focus on young workers, as they head out of school and into the workforce. Many of them will find jobs in the retail industry, a leading employer of young workers in the United States.
In 2014, there were approximately 18.1 Read More
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 the challenges and opportunities for safety in retail stores. The subject was discussed in great detail at the September 2016 Loss Prevention Foundation’s (LPF) board of Read More