Description
Workplace Security Essentials
A Guide for Helping Organizations Create Safe Work Environments
Author: Smith Eric N.
Language: English
Keywords
Assets; Burglary; Business continuity; Business functions; Business karate; Business practices; Business risks; Business security; Communications; Crime prevention measures; Crime rates; Data loss; Disgruntled employees; Domestic violence; Duress alarms; Emergency drills; Emergency exercises; Emergency help phones; Emergency operations plan; Emergency planning; Emergency response; Employee screening; Employee theft; Employee training; Essential personnel; Focus; Fraud; Graffiti; Hiring; Home security; Identification; Incident command system; Information security; Liability; Loss prevention; Marketing; Martial arts; Mitigation; Monthly reporting; Negligent hiring; Negligent security; Parking lot safety; Personal security; Premise liability; Property crime; Recovery; Risk matrix; Security awareness; Security education; Security education and awareness training; Security guard contract services; Security policies and procedures; Security risk assessment; Self-defense; Shoplifting; Supervision; System integrator; Threat assessment; Threats; Vandalism; Video surveillance system; Violent crime; Workplace violence
224 p. · 15x22.8 cm · Paperback
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Whether you are a business owner, department manager, or even a concerned employee, Workplace Security Essentials will show you how to improve workplace safety and security using real-life examples and step-by-step instructions.
Every organization, be it large or small, needs to be prepared to protect its facilities, inventory, and, most importantly, its staff. Workplace Security Essentials is the perfect training resource to help businesses implement successful security measures, boost employee morale and reduce turnover, protect the company?s reputation and public profile, and develop the ability to process and analyze risks of all kinds.
Workplace Security Essentials helps the reader understand how different business units can work together and make security a business function?not a burden or extra cost.
1: The Fighting Stance: Security Awareness
2. Developing a Security Focus: Identifying Critical Assets
3. Building Skills with Basics: Learning to Identify Threats
4. Playing with Blocks: Protecting What’s Important – Vulnerabilities
5. Practice Makes Perfect: Karate Forms and Organizational Memory
6. When They Are Close Enough to Kiss: Internal Threats
7. Getting Your Kicks: Responding to External Threats
8. When Things Get Down and Dirty: Workplace Violence
9. Freestyle Sparring: Learning to Fight Back – Emergency Operations Planning
10. Down, but Not Out: Disaster Drills and Recovery
11. The Dos and Don’ts of Self Defense: Understanding Your Premise Liability
12. Weapons of Organizational Self Defense: Security Protection Systems
13. Personnel Safety Is Personal Safety
14. The Wrap: Good Security Is Good Business
After authoring various articles on law enforcement and security topics, he has contributed to two books on security program administration and has been cited in the latest edition of Human Resource Management. His most recent publication, “Healthy Access to Healthcare: Visitor Management for Hospitals, is available online through Amazon.com (paperback) or electronically on Kindle. Recently, Eric developed an active shooter guideline for IAHSS after helping to plan and conduct a full-scale scenario involving SWAT, police responders, bomb squads and negotiators in an urban hospital.
In addition to authoring Workplace Security Essentials, as an avid writer and trainer, Eric created the Business Karate Blog. The blog includes security tips and suggestions for business leaders and anyone interested in personal security. Topics range from active shooters, corporate espionage, to suggestions on how to survive a robbery.
Eric obtained his Certified Protection Professional (CPP), the preeminent security management certification, through ASIS International. He holds a bachelor of science degree in International Business and Marketing from the University of Colorado.
- Shows how to identify threats using tried-and-true methods for assessing risk in any size organization
- Uses real-world examples and scenarios to illustrate what can go wrong—and what can go right when you are prepared
- Prepares the reader for worst-case scenarios and domestic violence that may spill over into the workplace
- Provides a clear understanding of various electronic systems, video surveillance, and burglar alarms, and how to manage a security guard force
