Realistic Safety Solutions for Employers

Realistic Safety Solutions for Employers

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A Message to Employers...

Whether you own a small business or manage a large corporation, your responsibilities are endless. Let Nicole handle the safety, security and violence prevention aspects of your business, so you can focus on your area of expertise.

Workplace Harassment & Violence ~ Defined

Reduced Liability

Employers may avoid or reduce liability for acts of workplace harassment or violence if they provide education and training for their employees.

Pre-employment screening may also reduce liability for negligent hiring.

Compliance

The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA), recommends that experts with experience in law enforcement conduct workplace violence training and develop prevention plans. The training programs and prevention plans created by our credentialed experts comply with these industry standards.

Decreased Operating Costs

The cost of workplace violence reaches over 35 billion each year in the form of litigation, property damage, counseling, insurance and lost productivity.

Subsequent efforts to improve public image and increase security after a violent incident is even more costly. You can avoid the fallout and high costs of these incidents by focusing on prevention.

Employee Wellness

Raising employee awareness levels and pre-planning for emergency situations are the key components of any prevention program. Employees who learn how to prevent and respond to various forms of harassment and violence will feel a heightened sense of security. Realistic Safety Seminars can raise employee confidence and improves cohesiveness within your organization.

Legal Considerations

At Realistic Safety Solutions, we recognize that domestic violence can leave the home and enter the workplace, which puts everyone at risk. We also recognize that a situation involving chronic harassment can be detrimental to the morale and wellness of your employees and can, eventually, lead to a violent episode. Participating in Realistic Safety Seminars will empower your employees to protect themselves from threats to their personal safety that range from behavioral offenses to abuse to violence and originate from both "inside" and "outside" sources.

Nicole has the expertise and ability to assist you with all of your safety related needs. See the wide variety of ways she has helped other businesses through her consulting services.

Although creating a safety, security and violence prevention plan may seem like an overwhelming task, this aspect of running a business is not an option or a luxury any longer. Courts have consistently ruled that business owners have a moral and legal responsibility to keep employees, clients, customers and visitors safe.

We recommend that you consult with your Human Resources Department or Legal Advisor regarding the implementation of a workplace harassment and violence prevention program. Our seminars, services and products are based on our expertise related to violence prevention and should never be construed as legal advice. However, we utilize the following principles as a basis for our training and encourage you to consider and research them as you evaluate the need to implement a workplace violence prevention program:

General Duty Clause: Under Section 5(a)(1) of the Occupational Safety and Health Act, employers are expected to provide "a place of employment which is free from recognized hazards that are causing or are likely to cause death or serious physical harm to employees." Due to the rise of violence in the workplace, OSHA has begun to issue citations for workplace violence under the general duty clause.

Outside Party: If an employee is victimized by an outside party (while working), an employer may be liable for damages, especially if the employer has taken no action to provide safety education or prevent workplace violence incidents.

Vicarious Liability: Employers shoulder the responsibility for the safety of their employees while they are traveling or working away from the office. OSHA defines the workplace as "any location, either permanent or temporary, where an employee performs any work related duty. This includes, but is not limited to, the building and surrounding perimeters (including parking lots), field locations, client's homes and any work related travel away from the office or to and from work assignments.

Negligent Hiring: Pre-employment screening has become a critical safeguard for employers who wish to avoid or reduce liability for damages arising from an employee's improper conduct or criminal actions.

Without exception, the term "workplace violence" creates images of mass murders and rampage shootings in our minds. It is true that these episodes are the most traumatic and the most publicized, but they are only a small segment of the global issues that fall under the category of "workplace violence".

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