Insight on Program Best Practices

The SEC’s perspectives on security program development and enhancement.

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Workplace Violence Management Guidance for Security Leaders

U.S. states including California and Texas are joining industry groups and other world governments in requiring organizations to implement measures to protect employees against violence in the workplace. Such regulation provides companies an opportunity to take action that shows their work force across the board – not only in regulated areas – that they prioritize employee safety.
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Mini Self-Assessment – Does Your WPV Prevention Program Need Work?

Regardless of the regulatory situation, security practitioners have a duty of care to protect employees at all levels from injury and death on the job. How do you know you’re doing all you can or should do?
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Active Shooter Program: First Steps

Active shooter cases have increased, and Boards have noticed. If you don't arleady have a program in place to manage this risk, here are some considerations to start you off.
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Personal Safety and Security Playbook: Risk Mitigation Guidance for Individuals, Families, Organizations, and Communities

Organizations have a Duty of Care to their staff and employees that includes protecting their health and safety while in the office environment. But what about helping to protect them at home? Showing staff and employees that the organization cares about their wellbeing beyond the campus builds a positive corporate...
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Faculty Advisor: Building a Right-Sized Protection Program

I am being tasked with establishing an executive protection program for our company.  Executive management does not feel a large entourage of security personnel is warranted. Any advice on how to build out the right program for my company?
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Faculty Advisor: Workplace Safety During Staffing Adjustments

What proactive measures should I take to help weather the inevitable storm when people who have worked here for many years learn that they will no longer have a job?  How can we ease the tension and give these employees some hope of moving forward?
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Faculty Advisor: Baking in Success to Your Workplace Violence Program

I am developing a workplace violence program for my company. I don’t want to miss any early opportunities to “bake in” success, so to speak. What are the big things I need to be thinking about as I develop policy and workplace violence program design?
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Event Risk Analysis Template

Use this template to identify and organize risk factors to help your organization make informed event security decisions.
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Personnel Protection: Advance Procedures (Parts 1-5)

This five-part series describes some advance security planning and arrangements for executive protection.
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Personnel Protection: Concepts of Executive Security (Parts 1-2)

This presentation presents an overview of both the proactive and reactive components of personnel protection, covering the layering of security measures, target hardening, intelligence gathering, and awareness.
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Domestic Violence Spills Over Into the Workplace (Parts 1-4)

Created by Rosalind W. Jackson, Security Executive Council staff member. In this series, Rosalind Jackson, SEC media and publications manager, discusses ways to assess the danger, help the survivor and keep the workplace safe. She discusses the signs and types of abuse; developing and communicating a domestic violence policy; the...
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Faculty Advisor: Keeping Your Workplace Violence Program Current

I have been proactive and have prepared and disseminated what I think is a good workplace violence procedure for my organization. But how can I keep ahead of the game when it comes to planning and preparing to help ensure that my organization does not end up in an undesirable situation involving workplace violence?
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SEC Security State of the Industry: Could Your Security Program Fall Below Industry Standard of Care Resulting in a Finding of Negligence?

A summary of a SEC Security State of the Industry briefing featuring a study of recent case law involving workplace violence programs.
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Workplace Violence Cross-Functional Risk Management Teams

The roles and responsibilities of the cross-functional team are identified and documented through a process of team member selection, indoctrination, training and performance results.
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Case Study: Risk Management and Security Metrics at Boeing

This case provides background information on Boeing and why its security group undertook an evaluation of the metrics that they use. The results of that evaluation are presented, along with a general discussion of how metrics are used to improve decision making and assessment.
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Faculty Advisor: Building a Consistent Employee Protection Program

My company has no consistent executive protection and event security program. Any advice on how to build out a program that will allow us to better support the executives and our employees?
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Workplace Violence Continuum

This graphic is a process chart, an internal awareness tool and program development tool.
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