I help small and midsized California employers take the guesswork out of implementing an effective workplace violence prevention program that keeps your employees safer, and complies with California's new workplace violence prevention law, Senate Bill 553, Chapter 289.
Do you know enough about how violence happens to train your employees in strategies to avoid physical harm that are effective with all 4 source types of workplace violence?
This convenient FREE on-demand training will DEMYSTIFY the most important; yet, least understood, requirement in California's new workplace violence prevention law. Here's what you'll learn:
- The key to employee safety from violence.
- The benefit to your organization from training your employees in the RIGHT strategies to avoid physical harm from violence.
- Why conventional wisdom about workplace violence is WRONG, and why that risks your employees' safety.
- How my "If-Then" approach to strategies to avoid physical harm helps your employees be SAFE from ALL 4 source types of workplace violence.
- How to ASSESS your employees SPECIFIC safety hazards from violence and determine the BEST strategies to avoid harm for those safety risks.
- And a BONUS on how to IMPLEMENT employee training on strategies to avoid physical harm the RIGHT way.Â
Whether you need a turnkey workplace violence prevention program or training in specific areas, I've got your workplace violence prevention needs covered. We'll:
- Discuss your organization's unique violence prevention needs and goals.
- Review your current workplace violence prevention plan for compliance with California's law.
- Identify and assess the specific safety hazards that your employees face from violence due to the nature of their work.
- Develop and implement approaches to address those safety hazards, and train your employees in those approaches.
- Train your staff in strategies to avoid physical harm from workplace violence, in conducting internal investigations, and training employees and incident response teams in what to do when a workplace violence emergency happens.Â
California's new workplace violence prevention law covers the majority of employees, employers, and workplaces.Â
Preventing workplace violence requires a different approach than preventing other workplace issues. Not getting it right:
- Risks your employees’ safety.
- When employees feel unsupported by their employer, they are more likely to quit, or miss work more often, making your workplace less productive and raising employment costs.
- And that can cause your revenue to fall.
- A significant violence incident can lead to lawsuits from employees as well as members of the public.
- Increase your health insurance, liability, and workers' comp premiums.
- Damage your reputation in the community.
- And lead to a significant fine from Cal/OSHA.
 Taking the guess work out of your approach to workplace violence prevention improves employee safety, complies with CA's Workplace Violence Prevention Law, improves productivity, and builds a team that feels more connected to their workplace:
- Keep your employees safer; thus, increasing employee loyalty to your organization by showing them that their safety matters.
- increases workplace productivity through better communication, community building, and teamwork.
- Protects your bottom line by reducing employee turnover and absenteeism, and decreasing healthcare, workers' comp, and liability premiums.
- Protects your favorable reputation in the community.
- Protects your organization by complying with California’s requirements.
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There is no pound of cure when it comes to the damaging effects of violence on your employees and organization.Â
Preventing Workplace Violence is Different from Preventing Other Types of Workplace Issues.
That's why the offices of a United States Senator, court administrators and personnel, judges, small business owners, educators, reporters, law firms, a large city's community safety department, nonprofit organizations, and others have turned to Mike Corwin to provide workplace violence prevention consulting and training.
Mike Corwin spent 30 years investigating violence in the workplace and in the community. Conducting investigations AFTER the violence had occurred, showed me that you can't undo the human toll from even a single incident of violence. Preventing violence from happening is the only way to go.
Through his experiences he learned what does, and does not work to prevent violence. And because his work took him to some very dangerous locations, Mike learned effective strategies to avoid physical harm to keep himself safe so that he could serve his clients effectively.
Mike is the author of the California Workplace Violence Prevention Manual. Design, implement, and maintain an effective California compliant workplace violence prevention program.
The California Employers Workplace Violence Prevention Toolkit. Everything employers new to workplace violence prevention need to create a workplace violence prevention plan that complies with California's new workplace violence prevention law.
And Effective Litigation Investigations. Improve your case outcomes through better investigation practices.
Learn more about Mike here.
Teaching How to Conduct Effective Internal Investigations
Soon after moving to Albuquerque in the mid-1990s, Mike began conducting investigation trainings for attorneys, legal assistants, paralegals, and law school students.
He was approved by the New Mexico Supreme Court, and the New Mexico Regulation and Licensing Division as a continuing education instructor in conducting investigations.
And regularly served as a guest instructor at UNM Law School's Clinical Law Program, it's Innocence and Justice Project, and it's Clemency and Pardon Project as well as civil and criminal law classes.Â
Mike has been featured on Dateline NBC, Politico Magazine, and Professional Investigator Magazine.
Training Employees in Strategies to Avoid Physical Harm from Workplace Violence
In addition to the violence prevention skills I learned while working as an investigator, I also trained in and taught a variety of martial arts, having achieved the rank of 3rd degree blackbelt in multiple disciplines.
The nature of violence is chaotic. There are times when you have no choice but to defend yourselves or others n order to avoid physical harm from violence.
BUT, in training students, Mike realized SELF-DEFENSE and MARTIAL ARTS are NOT one and the same.Â
One day, Mike came across an old training manual that the Allied forces used during WWII to train the women and men sent behind enemy lines to work with the local resistance. Mike found an approach to self-defense that was proven in one of the most difficult arenas. It worked for men and women regardless of size or strength.
After ensuring the effectiveness of this self-defense approach by training his own students in it, Mike added this self-defense training to his workplace violence prevention training to give employees effective strategies to avoid physical harm if they were physically attacked on the job
By combining everything learned through investigation work, with knowledge of the physical environment to identify and remediate safety hazards, and communication approaches, situational awareness, de-escalation, and self-defense skills, Mike's provided effective workplace violence prevention consulting and training services to employers for over 10 years. Â
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Michael Corwin, HelpYou Be Safe, LLC
38180 Del Webb Blvd. #245, Palm Desert, CA 92211
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