Here's the latest news from WCI Consulting. We've come to the attention of Washington!
Sunbury, Pa -- April. 6th, 2009 -- Jeffrey M. Miller, founder and CEO of Warrior Concepts International, Inc in Sunbury was recently highlighted by the Public Entity Risk Institute, or P.E.R.I., as a recommended resource on workplace violence training. Miller said that he was contacted recently by Mary Stewart, PERI's director of research and development to get his approval for adding slides about his company to a presentation that she was preparing. Stewart told Miller that she was delivering a presentation to the Pennsylvania State Association of Borough and Township Managers (PSAB) and wanted to be able to refer Miller's agency as a preferred resource.
P.E.R.I consults with government agencies, schools, and small businesses on different elements of risk management. However, according to Ms. Stewart, the agency's role is typically one of an advisory capacity. PERI researches and locates experts in particular fields that meet or exceed their standards and motivate client groups to use these experts to get the training and resources that the group has identified as problem areas. She said that Miller's company, WCI Consulting, a division of Warrior Concepts International, Inc., provided a service and training that was sorely missing in the field. Where most consultants are focusing on prevention, reporting, and helping clients to understand "why" it happens, Miller focuses primarily on teaching a company's employees and management how to survive an actual violent attack.
As a part of her presentation to the State Association, which was held in Hershey, Pennsylvania on March 24th, Stewart focused on the increased problems of violence in the workplace and in schools. During her research, she found Miller's web site, wcinternational.com, focused exclusively on workplace violence incident prevention and survival, and chose him because of his unique approach. According to both PERI and Miller, there is a tremendous need for employee training that involves not only being able to avoid and escape from a violent situation, but also in the neglected areas of attack evasion and self-defense.
"In spite of the increased occurrences of workplace and school violence over the past decade, including the dramatic increase in the number of incidents as we've entered these troubled economic times," says Miller, over 90% of companies, schools, and healthcare facilities still are without a workplace violence plan as part of their risk and crisis management systems." He also says that, even those who do have a plan, only have passive systems in place such as "zero tolerance" policies, banned weapons lists, and administrative procedures like reporting and disciplinary action. "Most policies," adds Miller, "are missing the procedures, policies, and employee training that would make the plan complete." These plans do little or nothing to prepare employees, managers, or others within the facility to handle the operative word the plan is supposed to address - "violence."
Miller points out that, the incidents that we've become aware of, everyone's worst nightmares, are perpetrated by people who just don't care. He says, "they don't care about your "zero-tolerance," or whether they're allowed to have the weapon." "And," he says, "in light of the fact that this person is probably going to end their own life before the situation is resolved, they certainly don't care about what you'll do to them afterwards."
For more information about PERI, visit their web site at http://www.riskinstitute.org. For additional information about training programs, creating a complete workplace violence plan designed to make your facility virtually attack-proof, or upcoming presentations for managers, business owners and administrators, contact Jeffrey Miller, c/o Warrior Concepts International, Inc.. He may be reached by calling (570) 988-2228, or you may use the contact form at http://www.wcinternational.com
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Remember, if I can be of any assistance in helping you to make your company attack-proof against the threat of a violent workplace violence attack, don't hesitate to call me at my international office in the US at (570) 988-2228, or email me at warriorc@warrior-concepts-online.com
Get your free copy of my safety DVD, "Danger Prevention Tactics: Protecting Yourself Like a Pro!" by going to www.wcinternational.com
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