What Happens Once Abuse & Neglect is Reported?
Organizational response is the difference between an effective abuse prevention program and one that fails to perform as intended, protecting both the individual and the organization.
People often reflect on fond childhood memories of summer camp, sports and fun in the sun. However, it’s not always fun and games. Help keep kids safe and do your part to protect your organization from potential risks related to vulnerable populations.
Help Protect Your Organization with a Safety Management System
A Safety Management System (SMS) is a system developed within your organization that is intended to collect important information about the risk of abuse and send it to different levels within the organization.
Help Mitigate Risk by Responding to Red Flag Behavior
Red-flag behavior does not mean that abuse is happening or that the person is an offender. Rather, it brings attention to the situation and calls attention to the area that needs further investigation.
How to Identify Danger
What are the common characteristics of an offender? These child sexual abuse statics show us that the problem is embedded and increasingly difficult to identify.
Monitoring and Supervising Staff
Abuse can happen in predictable patterns and places. Assessing staff behaviors and their environment is critical when working with employees and volunteers.
Use Safety Committees to Help Reduce Losses and Costs
Safety committees can play an effective role in any organizational risk management effort.
Policies and Procedures To Help Prevent Abuse
Policies inform staff, volunteers, participants, parents and the community what inappropriate behavior can look like and when to tell someone about it.
Understand the Risk of Aquatic Inflatables
Take corrective action right away to help keep patrons safe. Begin by modifying the play area including commercial water inflatables and making improvements to current lifeguarding towers and protocols in place.
Help Your School Bus Passengers Stay Safe
As a school bus driver, you should make sure that students behave well to avoid becoming distracted while driving.
Help Your Organization Prevent Cyberbullying
Bullying and harassment can be traumatic for people of all ages. In recent years, cyberbullying has become especially concerning. Cyberbullying can be defined in two different manners
Help Protect Your Community from Civil Unrest
Adequate planning and execution can help protect life and property during times of civil unrest.
Manage Your Risk in Online Learning Environments
You should manage the risks associated with online learning to help your organization stay on course toward fulfilling your mission and serving others.
Protect Your Business with a Violence Prevention Program
Different types of violence can occur in many workplaces. To help prevent workplace violence, management must provide visible support for a violence prevention program and communicate that there is zero tolerance for violence.
Understanding the Risks of 15-Passenger Vans
Make roadways safer by practicing these measures while operating a 15-passenger van.
Operational Change Management Checklist
Resiliency and adaptability are necessities in today’s quickly evolving world.
Stay Safe on Inflatable Amusement Rides
Inflatable amusement rides have gained popularity over the past decade for fairs, festivals, church organizations, schools and even for home parties.
Concussion Prevention: Creating a Safe Sport Culture
As a youth sports coach or parent, your actions can create a safe sport culture and can lower an athlete’s chance of getting a concussion or other serious injury.
Prepare to Care for Campers
Camp is often the highlight of the year for kids of all ages. But injuries and illnesses that can occur while there can dampen their spirits in a heartbeat.
Campground Management Safety Checklist
This safety checklist is intended to provide Campground Management with ideas that can make a safer environment for its clients.
Bicycle Safety Tips Before You Ride
There were 783 cyclist deaths in 2017, which accounted for 2.1 percent of all traffic fatalities during the year
Protect Youth Sports Participants
Coaches, volunteers, staff and officials can help prevent child sexual abuse in their sports organizations. Adhering to written policies and procedures can help create a positive and safe environment.
Stay Safe on the Playground
Playgrounds are a great place to build community and to help keep children active.
Get Familiar with Electric Shock Drowning
Here are some tips to reduce the risk of electric shock drowning and common boat electrical hazards.
Removing the Threat Of Construction Site Theft
The labor cost that comes along with working on a construction site is enough before factoring in the possibility of theft.
Help Your Organization Understand Heroin Addicts’ Potential Lifesaver
In 2019, nearly 50,000 people died from overdoses involving opioids. As opioid abuse increases, public health officials have pushed to make Naloxone more widely available.
ALICE - Security Action Plan
For too many years the standard response to a violent incident has been to lock down and wait for the authorities to arrive. This leaves people hiding in rooms with no other response. It is time to change our actions.
Mosquito Bite Prevention for Travelers
Mosquitoes spread many types of viruses and parasites that can cause diseases like chikungunya, dengue, Zika, and malaria. If you are traveling to an area where malaria is found, talk to your healthcare provider about malaria prevention medication that may be available.
Swimming Pools Safety
Each year, over 3,500 people in the United States die by drowning. Many more are injured in pool related accidents.
At Great American, not only do we take loss control seriously, we try to make it easier for our customers to operate in a safer environment. From thermal imaging, various training sessions, and educational information such as our Safety Topics, we provide specialized services to reduce loss potential, loss costs, and control unsafe acts and conditions.
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