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Making it Work
Workplace security programs and protocols that can stop dangerous and damaging incidents before they happen
BWy Tim Williams
e only talk about incidents like mass shootings when they occur, but for every mass shooting at a concert, or every incident of workplace vio- lence we see on the news, there are dozens of other acts that don’t happen—often because of
acts, the most effective risk mitigation security strategies all stem from the same basic process:
• Get inside the minds of bad actors
• Identify weaknesses in existing security protocols
• Use those insights and information to conduct a security threat analysis
• Design an effective security program to optimize protection going forward
Here are the critical steps in driving that process forward.
Make an Assessment
The first step in any security plan is assessing the risk that could impact a company, venue and/or business sector. That assessment
preventive security measures that were implemented well in advance. For business decision-makers and their security partners, there are few priorities more urgent than identifying potential threats to people, property and proprietary information, and adopting mitiga- tion strategies designed to prevent those incidents from ever occur- ring. Whether it is workplace violence, bomb threats, mass shootings, opioids, internal theft, counterfeiting, supply chain security, natural disasters, cybercrimes or a myriad of other damaging and violent
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