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Workplace Security Essentials
A Guide for Helping Organizations Create Safe Work Environments
A practical how-to guide for improving workplace safety and security without spending significant resources
Eric N. Smith (Author)
9780124165571, Elsevier Science
Paperback, published 10 June 2014
224 pages, Illustrated
22.9 x 15.1 x 1.5 cm, 0.27 kg
Whether you are a business owner, department manager, or even a concerned employee, Workplace Security Essentials will show you how to improve workplace safety and security using real-life examples and step-by-step instructions. Every organization, be it large or small, needs to be prepared to protect its facilities, inventory, and, most importantly, its staff. Workplace Security Essentials is the perfect training resource to help businesses implement successful security measures, boost employee morale and reduce turnover, protect the company’s reputation and public profile, and develop the ability to process and analyze risks of all kinds. Workplace Security Essentials helps the reader understand how different business units can work together and make security a business function—not a burden or extra cost.
1: The Fighting Stance: Security Awareness 2. Developing a Security Focus: Identifying Critical Assets 3. Building Skills with Basics: Learning to Identify Threats 4. Playing with Blocks: Protecting What’s Important – Vulnerabilities 5. Practice Makes Perfect: Karate Forms and Organizational Memory 6. When They Are Close Enough to Kiss: Internal Threats 7. Getting Your Kicks: Responding to External Threats 8. When Things Get Down and Dirty: Workplace Violence 9. Freestyle Sparring: Learning to Fight Back – Emergency Operations Planning 10. Down, but Not Out: Disaster Drills and Recovery 11. The Dos and Don’ts of Self Defense: Understanding Your Premise Liability 12. Weapons of Organizational Self Defense: Security Protection Systems 13. Personnel Safety Is Personal Safety 14. The Wrap: Good Security Is Good Business
Subject Areas: Working patterns & practices [KJWX], Personnel & human resources management [KJMV2], Causes & prevention of crime [JKVC]