I Help Small and Midsized California Employers Take the Guesswork Out of Effective Workplace Violence Prevention. Keep Your Employees Safer, Build a Stronger Workplace Community, Protect Your Bottom Line, and Comply with California's Workplace Violence Prevention Requirements.
I learned, through 30 years of investigating violence in the workplace and in the community, how violence happens and how it can be prevented. I worked in some pretty unsafe locations, and developed my strategies to avoid physical harm from workplace violence so that I could keep safe and be effective in my work.
Meeting Your Employees' Safety Needs and California's Workplace Violence Prevention Requirements in Today's Challenging Environment
Effective workplace violence prevention and staff safety are not one size fits all. When it comes to employee safety, every organization has a unique set of challenges, requirements, and needs. I'll help you take the guess work out of employee safety and compliance with California's new workplace violence prevention law. I specialize in a strategic approach based upon assessing your employees' specific safety hazards, using fun, in-person, hands-on training, that provides the skills your employees need to be safe, while helping build the level of connection and community within your organization.
Developing and Implementing a Complete Workplace Violence Prevention Program Customized to Your Organization's Specific Safety Needs.
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Conduct an assessment to determine the specific safety hazards, from the 4 source types of workplace violence, that your employees face.
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Develop, implement, and train employees in remediation approaches to eliminate those safety hazards.
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Train your staff in proven strategies to avoid physical harm from workplace violence.
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Train your staff in how to conduct effective workplace violence prevention investigations to provide decision makers with the most accurate information.
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Train your live incident response team in their specific responsibilities to ensure each person understands their roles and responsibilities during a violence emergency.
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Proven Strategies to Avoid Physical Harm from Workplace Violence.
California requires employers to train employees in strategies to avoid physical harm from workplace violence. The approaches I teach were developed and refined during 30 years of working in dangerous location. These trainings, whether done as a single topic lunch and learn, or a full day training, will keep your employees safer, comply with California's requirements, and work to improve employee communication, and further develop a sense community. Ā or In addition to live, hands on, in person training, your employees will also be provided with unlimited access to a companion video course.
Tier 1: Violence Avoidance: Situational Awareness, De-escalation, Communication Strategies, and Parking Lot Safety.
- How to identify potential safety hazards before your encounter them.
- Simple safety steps to reduce the risk of an attack while working in the community.
- Parking lot safety.
- How to develop exit strategies to get to a safer location.
- How to read a person's body language to anticipate an attack.
- How to remain calm when dealing with a workplace violence safety hazard.
- How to redirect a potential attacker's focus away from harming you.
- The safest body position for de-escalation.
- How to alert co-workers when you feel threatened, or need additional support when dealing with a potential safety threat.
- How to take away an attacker's initial advantage, to create the opportunity to safely exit or if necessary to defend yourself from an attack.
Tier 2: Violence Avoidance and Basic Defense to Avoid Physical Harm: Situational Awareness, De-escalation, Communication Strategies, Parking Lot Safety, Changing the Dynamics of an Attack, and Self-Defense Basics
- Everything in Tier 1 plus:
- Understanding what actual self-defense involves. What it is and is not.
- Why remaining close to an attacker is critical to safety, and how to get comfortable doing so.
- Simple blocking techniques to prevent an attacker's strikes from harming you.
- Simple footwork that allows you to avoid being harmed by an attacker's strikes.
- Basic counterstrike techniques using hands, elbows, and knees that anyone can use regardless of size or strength.
- The best self-defense target.
- How to escape when an attacker grabs you before he is able to harm you.
- How to quickly get up from the ground before an attacker can trap you.
Tier 3: Violence Avoidance and Advanced Defense to Avoid Physical Harm: Situational Awareness, De-escalation, Communication Strategies, Parking Lot Safety, Changing the Dynamics of an Attack, and Self-Defense against Unarmed and Armed Attackers.
- Everything in Tier 2 plus:
- Basic joint locks, and compliance techniques to keep an attacker from continuing his attack.
- How to defend against an attacker armed with a handgun or long gun. Including how to control the weapon so it cannot be used against you, and how to safely disarm the weapon.
- How to defend against an attacker armed with a knife or other bladed weapon including how to control the weapon so it cannot be used against you, and how to safely disarm the weapon.
- How to defend against an attacker armed with an impact weapon including how to control the weapon so it cannot be used against you, and to safely disarm the weapon.
Keep Your Employees Safer, Comply with California's Violence Prevention Requirements, and Improve Your Workplace Community.
"The situational awareness training was huge and it was something I was able to put into practice immediately! The most helpful thing from my perspective was the ability to have a specific plan and specific skills to extricate myself and my employees from a threatening situation. It is very reassuring."
Cherie LaCour
Attorney and Law Firm Owner
"Actually doing the exercises really helped meā€”talking about what to do is helpful, but in particular it helps get over the initial shyness with actually having to do them. I think that women in particular feel very self-conscience about self-protection."
Laura Callanan
Attorney
"After training with Mike there was a huge change. First there was just the confidence. I felt like I could go out and I had the skills and the know how to deal with any situation that came up and to get out of there safely."
Mandy Marley
Educator
Mike Corwin
Mike Corwin conducted civil plaintiff, criminal defense, and 3rd party fact-finding investigations for 30+ years leading including many workplace related cases. He.has helped hundreds of individuals, businesses, nonprofit organizations, and government agencies to reduce the risk of work related and community violence, including court staff and judges, the staff of a United States Senator, attorneys, healthcare professionals, educators, and more. Allowing them to continue confidently serving their communities.Ā
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