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Yearly Archives: 2017

Security in Bars, Taverns, and Nightclubs

by in Food & Beverage, Risk Management, Safety & Security. Posted December 5, 2017
In many parts of countries around the world, the neighborhood bar provides a location for friends to gather. Taverns and restaurants offer patrons a place to drink and dine. Nightclubs offer a high energy atmosphere that combines dancing and the consumption of alcohol. Hotels, motels, and entertainment complexes often contain bars, taverns, restaurants and nightclubs. ...
Tags Bars Food & Beverage Nightclubs Risk Management Safety and Security
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Responding to Crisis Effectively

by in Risk Management, Safety & Security. Posted November 9, 2017
In crisis, efforts toward the planning, training, and coordination of resources enable an organization to surge toward the protection of its assets and operations during disruption. However, what cannot be surged is stakeholder trust and confidence. Prior to crisis, a requisite level of capabilities must be developed and maintained to provide stakeholder confidence that assets ...
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Venue Protection in an Asymmetric Environment

by in Risk Management, Safety & Security. Posted October 24, 2017
In the aftermath of the horrific shooting at the Mandalay Bay Resort in Las Vegas on October 1, hotel operators, cinema and restaurant managers as well as security personnel assigned to outdoor venues, have logically asked themselves how they can go about “hardening” the location. Specifically, what reliable measures can they take to make the ...
Tags Risk Management Safety and Security Travel Risk Management
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An Often Overlooked Tool in Workplace Safety Prevention: The Near-Miss Investigation

by in Insurance & Loss Prevention, Risk Management, Safety & Security. Posted October 11, 2017
OSHA defines a near miss as an incident in which no property was damaged and no personal injury was sustained, but where, given a slight shift in time or position, damage or injury easily could have occurred. Put simply, someone got lucky. Because there was no damage, these near miss incidents are often ignored or ...
Tags Cozen O'Connor Insurance Risk Management Safety and Security Workplace Safety
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Travel Safety: Use of Vehicles as Weapons

by in Risk Management, Safety & Security, Travel. Posted September 7, 2017
It’s happened again-this time in Barcelona, on the popular tourist and historic street known as Las Ramblas.  A man using a van as a weapon careened down one of the two narrow side streets that border the wide pedestrian path and used it as a missile of sorts, killing 14 innocent people and injuring up ...
Tags Safety and Security Security Strategies Today Travel and Tourism Travel Risk Management Travel Safety
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The “Active Shooter” or Mass Shooter Subject Profile

by in Safety & Security. Posted February 22, 2017
Another day, another mass shooting in the US: We can blame it on a number of factors, from the proliferation of guns in the urban and suburban environments to socialization factors or on the effect of violent videos, movies and even game “apps” for smart phones. A number of explanations of the phenomenon have been ...
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Binary Treachery: Defending Yourself from Attacks Coming at the Speed of Light

by in Food & Beverage, Insurance & Loss Prevention, Risk Management. Posted January 10, 2017
It seems these days that not a month goes by when one does not hear about a major company’s network infrastructure being hacked. Major retailers (including bars and restaurants), insurance companies, payment systems and even Experian, the credit reporting agency, have been victims of cyber attacks resulting in the theft of the personal information of ...
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