Tag: workplace violence
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.
Focus on the 4 Ps to Meet Loss Prevention’s New Mandate in a More...
With 30 years as a first responder and leadership in the public safety community, Anthony Mangeri has long had a front row seat to the impact that emergency events have on retailers.
Fifteen Years of Loss Prevention
Based on another project, I have spent two months combing over every issue of Loss Prevention magazine. Being a reader from the very beginning...
Every Crisis Management Plan Needs to Address Workplace Violence
As mentioned in a recent article (“Terrorism, Workplace Violence, and Insurance Implications”), the latest research suggests that 95 percent of employers are either completely...
Terrorism, Workplace Violence, and Insurance Implications
Several recent manmade disasters, including the attack at Pulse nightclub in Orlando, FL, and the Brussels airport terrorist bombing, highlight the vulnerability of the...
Advanced Crisis Response Training is Required to Handle Protests
In the past, retailers considered public demonstrations to be a police matter and relinquished the development of response plans to the local level. Retailers...
It Can’t Happen Here…Can It? Developing a Crisis Management Plan, Part 1
Most loss prevention professionals are relative experts in the kinds of routine risks we face daily in the form of internal theft, external theft,...
Ensuring Retail Store Safety with the LPRC
Retailers want employees and shoppers alike to feel secure in their establishments. But violent crime has been surging in recent years. The Loss Prevention...
Active Shooter: This Time at UCLA
We have written a lot about active shooters and workplace violence. Just when you think there is no more to tell, it happens again.
On...
Retail Security and the Threat of Terror
In recent years, terror attacks seem to have targeted highly populated commercial venues rather than government facilities or symbolic sites. Kenya in 2013, Paris...