Workplace Violence

As workplace violence incidents continue to escalate across the country, it is important to understand their cause and not only respond to an incident, but perhaps more importantly, the steps you can take to potentially preventing workplace violence.

Plan. Prevent. Respond. Violence in the workplace has many forms ranging from verbal confrontation and sexual harassment to threatening statements, physical assault or even homicide. Employers and supervisors are often targeted by disgruntled employees, plus most workplace violence incidents aren’t bound by geographic, social or economic barriers.

Fortunately, preventing workplace violence is possible.  Experts agree workplace violence is a predictable behavior – if you know the warning signs!

Is your company prepared to detect and respond to those signs?

Comprehensive Planning and Prevention Strategies. Our workplace violence consultants take a proactive approach that places the emphasis on helping you and your employees recognize and respond to threats long before they can turn into a crisis situation. We start by guiding you through a careful process of planning for and preventing workplace violence.  This process is designed to help identify your risks and liabilities and the steps required to minimize them.

Then, Huffmaster designs and delivers comprehensive training programs to help employees recognize potential workplace violence situations and corresponding procedures to implement if something occurs. As necessary, we also provide temporary supplemental security to help mitigate the risk associated with termination and discipline problems, threats, interpersonal conflicts, downsizing, layoffs, domestic incidents and stalking.

Whether you need a workplace violence planning for a single facility or need to develop company-wide processes and procedures, Huffmaster is dedicated to Keeping Business in Business™ and can provide comprehensive planning and support services.

Prevention & Planning Services

• Threat Assessment: From surveys to needs analysis to risk analysis, we help assess your current situation, evaluate your preparedness and identify gaps and risks.

• Plan Development: We transition your requirements into a step-by-step plan of action covering policy development, reporting, threat analysis and the Threat Response Matrix system.

• Training: Based on an Executive Brief that outlines your plan, we train your employees to recognize warning signs and how to respond to dangerous situations.

Response Services

• Termination Support: We provide tools to identify the potential threat level of an employee who is being terminated as well as protection options for individuals with high-threat risk. Huffmaster also has a detailed Termination Support program which you can review by navigating to the page or by clicking on the link.

• Threat Response: We analyze a threat to determine its viability and provide personal and facility protection and surveillance on the subject to aid in early warning and threat assessment.

• Violence Response: Huffmaster provides temporary supplemental facility security to make your return to normal operations faster and easier.