I help small and midsized California employers take the guesswork out of establishing, implementing, and maintaining an effective workplace violence prevention program. Getting this right:
- Keeps your employees safer.
- Builds a stronger workplace community.
- Protects your bottom line.
- Complies with California's workplace violence prevention law and its requirements.
I learned how violence happens and how it can be prevented through 30 years of investigating violence in the workplace and in the community. I developed strategies to avoid physical harm from workplace violence in order to keep safe while working in some pretty unsafe locations.
Take the guesswork out of ensuring your employees' safety and complying with California's new workplace violence prevention law and its requirements.Ā When it comes to employee safety, your organization has a unique set of challenges, requirements, and needs. I'll help you get it right by:
- Assessing your employees' specific safety hazards.
- Using fun, in-person, hands-on training, that provides the skills and information your employees need to be safe.
- Increasing your employees' sense of connection to your organization.
Develop, implement, and maintain a turnkey workplace violence prevention program tailored to your employees' specific safety needs. To make sure your program specifically addresses your employees' unique needs, I will:
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Conduct an assessment to identify 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 help your employees avoid physical harm from workplace violence.
California requires employers to train employees in strategies to avoid physical harm from workplace violence. But, doing so requires that you understand the nature of violence, how it occurs, and what your employees can do to avoid physical harm in any situation. This is the most important, yet least understood, element of making your workplace violence prevention program effective. I offer three levels of in-person training on strategies to avoid physical harm from violence. Choose the one best suited to your employees specific safety needs.
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.
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" 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. The situational awareness training was huge and it was something I was able to put into practice immediately!"
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. As an educator, 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 spent 30 years conducting civil plaintiff, criminal defense, and 3rd party fact-finding investigations. For over 10 years he has taken what he learned about violence and used that to help businesses, nonprofit organizations, and government agencies to help reduce their employees' safety risk from work related and community violence, including court staff and judges, the staff of a United States Senator, attorneys, healthcare professionals, educators, construction, and manufacturing companies, and more. He is the author of the California Workplace Violence Prevention Manual, and Effective Litigation Investigations.
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