Proactive Workplace Violence Response: Mitigating Risks for Your Clients

In an increasingly unpredictable world, the risk of workplace violence presents significant concerns for businesses and their insurers. This comprehensive course is designed specifically for insurance agents who play a crucial role in helping clients understand, prepare for, and mitigate the risks associated with workplace violence.

Participants will gain critical insights into identifying and assessing various types of threats that businesses may face, including external offenders, targeted attacks, and internal threats from current or former employees. The course will delve into why specific businesses may be targeted and explore the nuanced differences between the likelihood and impact of potential threats.

Basic Course Information

• Identifying Risks: Understand the different types of workplace violence and the specific risks they pose to businesses.
• Mitigating the Risk: Learn about effective strategies to reduce the risk of workplace violence, including thorough threat assessments, comprehensive policy reviews, and strategic termination procedures.
• Employee Preparedness: Develop robust employee reporting systems, conduct insightful employee interviews, and implement physical security measures.
• Crisis Management: Participate in workshops designed to enhance crisis management skills, ensuring that businesses can effectively respond to workplace violence incidents.
• Effective Training: Discover the essential components of workplace violence training programs, including recognizing threats, responding appropriately, and survival tactics.
• Benefits of Preparedness: Highlight the advantages of being prepared, such as increased likelihood of prevention, potential reduction in casualties, minimized business interruption, enhanced value as a vendor, and overall business resilience.
• Consequences of Unpreparedness: Understand the severe impacts of not being prepared, including injury or loss of life, business interruption, loss of revenue, inability to meet customer needs, community impacts, reputational damage, and civil litigation.