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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.
The Big Picture: Retail Video Today and What’s Coming Tomorrow
Visual information is no longer the only — and perhaps not even the primary — component of a video surveillance system. Images are still valuable, but it is the data inherent within them that provides for new applications and value. A camera is now a computer with a lens. Video once provided LP with extra eyes. Now it also offers brains.
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...
Workplace Health and Safety: Dispelling the Myths
As a young boy, my dreams didn’t include wanting to be a workplace health and safety professional. In fact, I probably wasn’t alone in...
The Flip Side of IPV and Domestic Violence in the Workplace
The issues of intimate partner violence (IPV) and domestic violence in the workplace continue to make news. First, tragic events are still occurring, like...
Cashing In on Security
It is possible for cash to be an afterthought. Shoppers are using it less, and it doesn’t command attention like new mobile payment methods...
Intimate Partner Violence Poses Unique Threat to Retail—But There Are Ways to Prevent a...
Dr. Ron Wallace, a criminal justice professor for American Public University System, has studied the intersection of intimate partner violence with the workplace—and he has also dealt with it firsthand.
Profitect Wins First RILA Asset Protection Innovation Award
Twelve industry solutions providers were finalists in the inaugural 2016 Retail Asset Protection Innovation Award competition at the Retail Industry Leaders Association (RILA) Asset...
New Loss Prevention Track Targets Fast-Growing Field
A new bachelor’s degree specialty at the University of Indianapolis is among the first in the nation to prepare graduates for one of the...
Boosting Employee Shrinkage and Safety Awareness in the DC Environment
Four major retailers discovered that reducing losses in their distribution centers (DCs) boiled down to one primary challenge—getting associates to take responsibility and accountability...