Stay Safe At Work: Your Ultimate Guide to Workplace Security

You have the right to a safe workplace and this book can help you feel more secure if you work in an office environment, at a customer-contact counter, in a hospital, a library, a classroom, or out in the field. No matter how or where you do your job, for a public-sector agency or a private-sector company, your organization has a duty to keep you safe. You need to know how, when, and where to report problems to your bosses. You need the tools to protect yourself and your co-workers from threatening people or situations that may happen where you work. If you’re an executive, department director, manager, or supervisor, Stay Safe at Work can help you better protect your employees and your business by guiding you in your policy developments, responses, and reporting responsibilities. This book can serve as a new-employee orientation guide, as a teaching tool for managers and supervisors, and as a useful and readable manual for employees to keep at their desks or workstations. In these pages, you’ll find solutions to match the risks, hazards, or challenging people you face in your workplace. It covers many safety and security topics from active shooters and workplace violence prevention, to pandemics, weather emergencies, facility security, first aid, fires, domestic violence, parking lot safety, and terrorism awareness. Stay Safe at Work features sections to help employees deal with difficult, entitled, or threatening customers, taxpayers, or visitors. “Steve Albrecht and Robert May have been an important part of the Authority’s team for many years, sharing their expertise in workplace safety with our local government agencies. This book provides a practical and comprehensive guide for all levels of the organization to prepare for and deal with critical incidents.” – Jon Shull, CEO, California Joint Powers Insurance Authority “Steve Albrecht and Robert May have decades of experience in crisis management consulting and training employees to feel more secure. Their book is an important contribution to help organizations function with confidence. Stay Safe at Work provides agency leaders with practical solutions and will give their employees more peace of mind as they do their jobs.” – Michael Fleming, CEO, CSAC-Excess Insurance Authority