By Rick Shaw, Awareity.com Have you noticed more and more comments from the media, safety experts and government leaders are focusing on the failure of organizations to connect-the-dots and the failure to identify red flags prior to emergencies and crisis situations? From Columbine to Virginia Tech to Fort Hood to the University of Alabama and [...]

Press Release from Awareity.com Awareity officially launches new TIPS (Threat Assessment, Incident Management and Prevention Services). TIPS offers a unique and holistic suite of tools to immediately improve threat assessment team efforts, incident reporting, incident management, intervention and prevention efforts. In today’s litigious, increasingly regulated and safety-oriented society, organizations have responsibilities to ensure ongoing compliance [...]

Press Release from Business Management Daily In the wake of a spate of workplace shootings, HR professionals and managers nationwide are grappling with the horrific possibility of violence erupting in their own facilities. To help employers prevent tragedies like those that paralyzed communities across the country in the last two weeks, Business Management Daily has [...]

Press Release from PRWeb.com This summer, Henley-Putnam’s exclusive webinar series continues, this time led by University President and co-founder Michael Corcoran, PhD. In addition to his former career as a U.S. Secret Service Special Agent, Dr. Corcoran is an author and one of the country’s foremost authorities in threat assessment and workplace violence and consults [...]

By Ross Astramecki, North Bay Business Journal All organizations, regardless of number of employees, are vulnerable to workplace violence, which can occur in any type of economy. The potential impact of workplace violence can not only destroy employee morale and productivity, but also devastate lives and the company itself. The University of Georgia released a [...]

By Lorraine Mirabella, The Baltimore Sun A former employee at a Baltimore County automotive repair shop lurked nearby in the days after his firing last year, watching the comings and goings from across the street. Employees feared that he was plotting revenge. What the ex-employee didn’t know was that he, too, was being watched. Philip [...]

By Kim Arlington, The Sydney Morning Herald A murder-suicide could have been avoided had the NSW Ambulance Service handled complaints about one of its paramedics differently, a psychiatrist told an inquest. Trent Speering had a long history of misconduct and conflict with ambulance service colleagues. To psychiatrist Michael Diamond these were not simply signs he [...]

By Leischen Stelter, Security Director News When a gunman stormed through Emcore Corp.’s manufacturing plant here last week, it was another grim reminder for security professionals that threats of workplace violence should remain high on their list of concerns. On July 12, an armed man entered his former place of employment and fired 21 rounds, [...]

from U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics Mass shootings receive a great deal of coverage in the media, as we saw with the Orlando, Fla., office shootings in November 2009 and in the shootings at the manufacturing plant in Albuquerque, N.M., in July 2010. Out of 421 workplace shootings recorded in 2008 (8 percent of total [...]