Ajs 554 - Crisis Management Paper

Crisis Management Paper

Timothy Evangelista, Larry Fulse, Joshua Harmon, Heather Jones and George Tobi

AJS/554

University of Phoenix

June 13, 2016

James Smith

Crisis Management Paper

Introduction

       The term personal protection has taken a whole new meaning in recent years with the dramatic increase of violence in America and is generally defined as having a situational awareness of physical environments and a functional capacity to adapt to changing environments. Personal security is about assuming protection for individuals, asserts and property for individuals, asserts and property we consider to have value. An increase in crime trends across America has led to heighten use of personal protection agencies for organization around the world and the need for informational awareness and implementation of personal security measures. Risk is a natural part of life, but in order to reduce the amount of risk, one must consider elements of personal security in their daily routine. Some of these categories of personal security measure to consider that would help reduce risk, which require us all to reexamine our personal security control measure for the way we travel, handle our mail either at home or at work, work place violence, residing abroad and the physical security of our residence. This paper provides valuable information regarding ways to reduce hazards and implement risk assessment within daily routines to reduce risk and increase a sense of personal security. Personal security is about protection, expanding to great lengths and is the responsibility of all of us.

Travel

Researching is one of the most important things a person can do when they are preparing to take a trip. Location would be the 1st place to start.  If you decide to go out of the country there are a few things you need to look at. Make sure you have all of the necessary documents. Look to see if you need a passport. If you need a passport find out what information will need to get it.  Then find out where you will have to get to get it. Make sure that your passport will not expire before your trip is over. If it does expire it could have you stranded until you can get it fixed. Always make several copies of the passport and place them in separate pieces of luggage. In addition, make sure you have obtained the necessary visas if the country of your destination requires those (Katz & Caspi, 2003).

As soon as you have finalized your itinerary, give a copy of it to someone at home. Include all the phone numbers and e-mail addresses that you can and arrange to check in with a friend or relative at regular intervals (Katz & Caspi, 2003).  This is a way to make sure someone knows where you should be if anything were to happen. Check in with them and let them know that you are ok. Also give them contact numbers so if they need to get in contact with you they can.

Another thing you should look in to would be medical insurance. Most insurance companies won’t cover you if you’re out of the United State.  There is a chance that you might not even need it, but it is better safe than sorry. You would not want to be trapped in another country without insurance. If you are on any medication make sure you pack at least a month worth. Always carry more than you need so if you get stranded you will have your medication with you. There is no way of knowing if you’re going to have any kind of delay on your trip. The best thing to do would be to have extra medicine because you cannot run down to Walgreen and pick some up.

Receipt of Mail and Packages

When you receive mail look at the address. Most of the measures dealing with the receipt of mail and packages are based on common sense. First rule; trust your instincts. They usually are right. If you get an item that for any reason seems suspicious or makes you uncomfortable, do not open it. Carefully place it aside and calmly consider your options (Katz & Caspi, 2003). If the letter or package comes from an unknown address, has a weird odor or its making a “tick-tick” sound notified the police and leave the area. If you live out of the country do not have packages sent to your home, find an alternate address for them to go to. This will prevent anyone from knowing where you live. This will also prevent them from harming you or anyone in your family.

Workplace Violence

Before the events of 9/2011, workplace violence was deemed to be implemented by unhappy workers, consumers, or a domestic violence and or a stalking association that emerges at a place of work ("Workplace Violence: Issues in Response", n.d.). Ever since that period, America’s offices have to be ready not only to confront the more outdated inner office dangers, but now have to contemplate the external hazard of terrorism. On August 20, 1986, a part-time letter carrier named Patrick H. Sherrill, who had a blemished work history was probably going to lose his position, strolled into the post office in Edmond, Oklahoma, where he was employed and shot fourteen people and eventually took his own life as well ("Workplace Violence: Issues In Response", n.d.). Because of this apparently fresh development, killings in the workplace by employees, who are on the edge, have become broadcasting concentrated occurrences. Truthfully, the obvious increase in such circumstances may have been an influence fashioned by this augmented media interest. Nevertheless, the regularity of incidents after the Edmond post office homicides was staggering ("Workplace Violence: Issues in Response", n.d.).

Workplace hostility is nowadays acknowledged as a precise classification of intense misconduct that demands clear-cut reactions from companies, police, and society ("Workplace Violence: Issues in Response", n.d.). This appreciation is somewhat new. Most of the daily incidents that employees and managers face are less significant circumstances of physical attack, domestic violence, stalking, coercions, provocation including sexual harassment, and physical or emotional cruelty that receive no recognition and many of these incident are not even reported to police ("Workplace Violence: Issues In Response", n.d.).

Companies have a lawful and moral responsibility to encourage a work setting exempt from risks and hostility and can be subjected to financial loss as the consequence of hostility in the shape of consumed work time, broken worker optimism and output, augmented employees’ reimbursement expenses, remedial costs, and potential claims and liability expenses ("Workplace Violence: Issues In Response", n.d.).

Deterrence of workplace hostility starts with preparation. Additionally, as with other dangers, it is easier to encourage bosses to concentrate on the crisis after an intense act has occurred than it is to get them to be proactive. If the choice to organize beforehand is more challenging to make, on the other hand, it is also more rational ("Workplace Violence: Issues in Response", n.d.). Any business, big or small, will have an easier time identifying and stopping possible incidents before they happen and will have the ability to manage the crisis better if one were to take place if its managers have contemplated the concern in advance and have organized strategies, procedures, and organizations to cope with the danger.