How to Make Your Company Safer

Overview/Description
 There are some simple procedures that can help you prevent violent episodes in your workplace, and this course will introduce them. Learn hiring practices that can help you identify and NOT HIRE potential powder kegs. You'll also learn how to develop strong violence-prevention policies, how to set up and run a Crisis Management Team, and what you should be training your employees--frontliners and managers--to watch for.

Target Audience
 Top-level managers, training managers, human resource managers, functional managers, supervisors, and team leaders

Expected Duration
3.0 hours

Lesson Objectives:

Don't Hire Your Problems

  • recognize the value of using best practices to prevent the hiring of an individual who may later create violence issues at work.
  • identify reasons to investigate a job candidate's background for a history of violence.
  • identify specific ways to research a job candidate's background for a history of violence.
  • identify good and bad interviewing questions to learn about a candidate's background regarding violence issues.
  • identify situations calling for psychological testing of job candidates.

    • Violence-prevention Policies

  • recognize the benefits of having a written violence-prevention policy with supportive programs and procedures.
  • identify the elements that should be included in a good company violence-prevention policy.
  • select the advantages of having a Peer Review Board.
  • select the ways Employee Assistance Programs can help organizations.
  • choose the statements that explain why documenting every violent incident is a critically important practice.
  • select the procedures that will decrease the chances for a violent incident when terminating a violence-prone employee.

    • Establishing and Managing a CMT

  • recognize the benefits of a well-organized and well-trained Crisis Management Team.
  • correctly sequence statements that describe how a CMT is intended to work.
  • identify important steps to take to establish a CMT.
  • match appropriate assessments/interventions to examples of inappropriate behavior.

    • Training Your Employees

  • recognize the value of using good practices in training frontliners and supervisors/managers in violence prevention and management.
  • identify appropriate information about warning signs of violence for frontliners.
  • select appropriate topics for training supervisors and managers in violence prevention and management.

    • Course Number: HR0344