You have real opportunities to improve your organization’s readiness to manage a crisis. Developing emergency preparedness plans is critical, but a challenge arises when the planning efforts end with the plan creation. While it is better to have a plan than to be completely unprepared, a constant state of readiness is only possible if the plan is challenged and practiced.
 

There is an even greater need for security today than ever before. Emerging threats, coupled with a stronger emphasis on safety and evolving business environments, have prioritized the need for security.

You worked late. As you get into your car in the parking lot, you answer an incoming email. The car door is unlocked as you sit behind the wheel focused intently on typing your response. Then suddenly, a gunman jerks open the car door…

Two important concepts are at play that led up to this personal crisis: dissociation and its accompanying lack of vigilance. Being prepared for emergencies and crises of all sorts requires readiness. 
 

In today’s business environment, emergency response plans are crucial to keeping employees, tenants and visitors safe when and if a dangerous event arises. An essential component of any emergency plan is communication. How you choose to communicate the incident, the severity and response protocols can make a difference.
 

Quality service providers that strive to exceed client expectations and meet the highest industry standards need to carefully evaluate how to continuously improve and keep pace with changing needs. This is critical in the security industry where needs and priorities evolve rapidly. To be successful, security providers need to recognize and honor this critical priority: understand what is important, commit to excellence and deliver. 
 

Executive protection agents would do well to learn from the chameleon’s adaptive strategy. We too must both blend in and stick out. And, we must do it quickly and seamlessly with every new assignment.

Risk is a critical concern for every organization. It is important for leaders to recognize risk management as a foundation of operational success and implement strategies to address risk proactively. 

Risks associated with employee well-being are often attributed to the lack of a strong safety culture, and therefore a workplace safety program should be an integral component of your overall approach to risk management.

 

Tightening budgets and growing security needs often result in campus leaders looking to supplement the security team with student workers. What is the impact of students employed as security personnel on campus? 
 

What events are occurring in your city this week? What effects will these events have on your workplace? Business interruption for any reason can have a negative, lasting impact. To counter this possibility, successful organizations develop comprehensive situational awareness plans to keep the continuity of their operations and protect employees, tenants and visitors. 
 

As the country prepares for the 2016 Republication and Democratic National Conventions in Cleveland and Philadelphia, respectively, this summer, the potential exists for nationwide political protests and demonstrations. In what many consider one of the most explosive and extended presidential election seasons in recent memory, it is important for business leaders to ensure that their emergency preparedness planning addresses the potential for election-related civil unrest.