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Situational Awareness For Everyone
Is Essential In The Workplace
Situational Awareness For Everyone (SAFE) is the key to identifying potential threats/dangers before they become a crisis. Render Safe Consultants’ safety training provides your employees with the tools necessary to become more aware of their environment, making them better prepared to identify suspicious behavior and danger. Without this training, the vast majority of your employees would miss these indicators, potentially putting themselves and their colleagues in harm’s way.
Personal Safety of Your People: Every great company recognizes their people as their most important asset. However, beyond viewing them as important assets, companies today have a direct responsibility to provide their people with a safe work environment.
Violence / Crisis Prevention: There are numerous ways to prevent workplace violence. The majority of workplace violence incidents have revealed that prior to the violence, there were suspicious indicators or red flags that were overlooked or ignored. Sadly, many incidents could have been recognized and prevented.
Company Unity: Participants in Render Safe’s training realize their colleagues sitting on either side of them could play a role in their wellbeing and vice versa. There is no training that creates greater team unity than one that ties the personal safety of colleagues together.
Planning: Most companies are thoughtful about planning for business trends, customer needs, on-boarding new hires etc. Render Safe’s training should simply be viewed as one more common sense element of company planning for workplace crises.
Recruitment: Companies participating in Render Safe’s training demonstrate a level of concern for the safety and wellbeing of their people. As we know, this kind of care for people can greatly add to a company’s reputation and thereby their recruitment success.
Our Services
Situational Awareness and Normalcy Bias
Crisis Response
and Reaction
Proactive
Communication
Unfortunately there is a cultural phenomenon called Normalcy Bias. This usually occurs during a critical incident where people tend to interpret warnings in the most optimistic way possible, seizing on any ambiguities to infer a less serious situation. SAFE training gives the tools to replace Normalcy Bias with Action Bias.
This training provides a common sense approach to reporting suspicious / dangerous behavior that has been identified. We also recommend the national “See Something - Say Something” campaign that has proved to be a very successful campaign, preventing several critical incidents. SAFE training also leverages social media to provide individuals with constant situational awareness updates.
When in crisis the logical section of the brain shuts down and the brain depends on the intuitive section for direction. Unless you have had prior experiences or training in crisis management, your decision-making process will be delayed and therefore move you to the “victim” side of the survivability spectrum. SAFE training provides those intuitive tools that will be easily retained to maintain a “Survivor’s Mindset” during a crisis that will assist in keeping you on the “survivor’s” side of the spectrum.
Developing Emergency Action Plans
Physical Security Assessments
Recognition & Identification of Suspicious Letters & Parcels
About Render Safe Consultants
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The Unfortunate Realities Surrounding
Workplace Violence
Homicide is currently the 4th leading cause of fatal occupational injuries in the United States.
Of the nearly 4,700 fatal workplace injuries that occur in the United States in an average year, over 400 are workplace homicides.
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SAFE Training
We deliver the SAFE Training in an engaging 90-minute interactive session that leaves your employees feeling empowered and confident when they walk out because they realize that they play an integral role in keeping themselves and their colleagues safe.
Steve Ahern
Founder & President
Steve Ahern has nearly 30 years of law enforcement experience in a major city in addition to being a former United States Marine.
He has extensive experience and expertise across a wide spectrum in law enforcement response to critical incidents. Steve has trained at the FBI National Academy Session #239, attended an internationally renowned counter-terrorism training session in Israel, and is a certified Bomb Technician with additional certifications in Large Vehicle Borne IED Post Blast Investigations, and Advanced Explosive Disposal Techniques (AEDT).
Steve attended Harvard University Kennedy School of Government Executive Education Program and received certificates in The National Preparedness Leadership Institute (NPLI) Program as well as the Leadership in Homeland Security (LHS) Program. Steve holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Law Enforcement as well as a Master’s Degree in Criminal Justice Administration.
Steve is a recognized Subject Matter Expert in the following areas:
| Law Enforcement Training | Counter-Terrorism | |
| Executive Leadership | Counter IED Operations | |
| Strategic Problem Solving | Hazardous Materials Containment | |
| Critical Incident Management | Threat Assessment | |
| Incident Command | Risk Analysis | |
| Physical Security Assessment | Developing Emergency Action Plans | |
| Special Operations | Large Event Planning and Security |
| Draper Laboratory | Microsoft | |
| Pfizer Inc. | Cambridge Public Libraries | |
| Youville House | Oxford Property Group | |
| Vinfen | Commonwealth Financial Network | |
| CambridgeSide Galleria Mall | & Many More |
Some of our valued safety training clients include:
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Additional Services
Render Safe Consultants can assist in the development of a comprehensive Emergency Action Plan or can review and update existing plans.
An Emergency Action Plan (EAP) is a document that is required by OSHA standards to facilitate and organize employer and employee actions during an emergency. It is a written plan detailing step-by-step procedures to follow during emergencies such as fire, severe weather or workplace violence. There are three key reasons why every company should have an EAP beside the OSHA requirement:
- It enhances your company’s ability to recover from financial losses, damages to equipment or products or business interruption.
- It bonds management and employees by providing a culture of safety as well as shared responsibilities in the plan.
- It establishes favorable relationships with local emergency responders who know you have an EAP and have communicated well the details of it with your employees.
Every company needs security procedures and protocols to protect their personnel, hardware, software, networks and data, Render Safe consultants can provide a Physical Security professional to conduct a walk-through of your facility to assess your security needs as well as identify vulnerabilities in your existing security plan. We focus our assessment around 4 tasks:
- Identify assets to determine their value loss impact and criticality.
- Assess the nature of the threats so that the scope of the problem can be determined.
- Conduct a physical security survey in order to identify the vulnerabilities of the organization.
- Perform a risk analysis so that appropriate countermeasures can be developed.
It is important that every employee handling or receiving mail can identify a suspicious letter or parcel. Although occurrences are extremely rare, it is essential to know what to do when suspicious mail is received. All staff must remain alert for the tell-tale signs of a potentially dangerous piece of mail or parcel. Render Safe Consultants can provide an interactive two hour training that when completed by your employees gives them the tools and the confidence to handle mail and parcel safely. This training is delivered by a certified bomb technician that has hundreds of hours of experience in responding to hazardous devices, mail and parcels. This training focuses on three areas:
- Recognition and identification of dangerous items.
- Proper procedures when identified.
- Bomb threat management and procedures.
Situational Awareness
For Everyone
The Unfortunate Realities Surrounding Workplace Violence
5 Reasons To Work With Render Safe Consultants
Personal Safety of Your People
Violence / Crisis Prevention
Company Unity
Planning
Recruitment
Our Services
Render Safe Consultants can assist in the development of a comprehensive Emergency Action Plan or can review and update existing plans.
An Emergency Action Plan (EAP) is a document that is required by OSHA standards to facilitate and organize employer and employee actions during an emergency. It is a written plan detailing step-by-step procedures to follow during emergencies such as fire, severe weather or workplace violence. There are three key reasons why every company should have an EAP beside the OSHA requirement:
- It enhances your company’s ability to recover from financial losses, damages to equipment or products or business interruption.
- It bonds management and employees by providing a culture of safety as well as shared responsibilities in the plan.
- It establishes favorable relationships with local emergency responders who know you have an EAP and have communicated well the details of it with your employees.
Situational Awareness For Everyone (SAFE) is the key to identifying potential threats/dangers before they become a crisis. Render Safe Consultants’ safety training provides your employees with the tools necessary to become more aware of their environment, making them better prepared to identify suspicious behavior and danger. Without this training, the vast majority of your employees would miss these indicators, potentially putting themselves and their colleagues in harm’s way.