Regroup’s security and risk mitigation services help organizations protect their people, property, and brands while reducing risk and preparing for the unexpected.
Our trusted and highly credentialed Security Advisors provide comprehensive risk assessments, tailored emergency management and active shooter plans, and customized training that also help you make the most of your Regroup Mass Notification account.
A Regroup Security Assessment helps your organization benchmark and implement best practices in physical, technical, procedural, and personnel security. These security measures must all work together in order to protect your people, property, and assets.
Our security assessment reviews your security technologies, including the access control system, cameras, fire alarms, duress buttons, and emergency communications to ensure they are aligned with physical security measures like doors, locks, gates, and fences—and that these security disciplines are supported by trained security professionals and policies and procedures that prioritize safety and security. By leveraging our experiences with corporations, healthcare organizations, industrial facilities and other public and private sector entities, we also benchmark your security against industry best practices as well as comparable organizations.
After performing the assessment, your Security Advisor will offer strategic considerations for improvements to achieve a best in class security program through discreet and unobtrusive enhancements that preserve your culture and allow your employees to do their best work.
An integral part of protecting your employees, risk management begins with an understanding of risk and the elements that contribute to it. Defined as the probability of loss from a threat, risk plays a major role in your holistic security strategy. A risk assessment performed by one of our experienced Security Advisors is an important step to take to create an environment that safeguards your employees from the threats most likely to occur at your location based on history and probability. Each of these threats can have moderate, significant, catastrophic, or severe consequences that could potentially harm employees, disrupt business operations, or damage property and assets.
Our risk assessment includes detailed analysis that is based on research, institutional knowledge, and statistical review of crime stats and historical data. Each delivered plan identifies weaknesses in your security posture based on multiple factors, such as people, policy, physical measures, and technology, including challenges communicating with your employees. Based on your level of risk, we develop countermeasures (such as implementing Regroup’s mass notification system) to mitigate negative consequences and enable you to take actionable steps to protect your employees.
Having an emergency management plan in place safeguards your people, assets, and operations when the unexpected happens . It’s the logical next step for any organization to take after conducting a security assessment, which evaluates risk and security measures currently in place.
An emergency management plan (EMP) accounts for your people by thoughtfully planning your response and recovery efforts to an emergency and its impact on your operations. While emergency incidents can disrupt essential functions, services, and capabilities across an entire enterprise or institution, effective planning increases resiliency and ensures you can continue to provide essential functions and services during and after an incident.
A clear, comprehensive, and detailed plan protects your employees against all hazards including natural events like severe weather, accidental ones like power outages, and criminal activity such as an active shooter. Your EMP will be carefully tailored to your location, and will identify key components such as evacuation routes, assembly areas, and safe rooms. Our trained Security Advisor will also outline roles that your emergency management team and employees will perform in an emergency and define who coordinates with first responders, specifically police and fire. Your final EMP will also ensure there’s a plan for effective communication with employees, first responders, and stakeholders, including using mass notification systems like Regroup.
Workforce training creates an educated workforce that contributes to a safe and secure workplace every day. Detailed training supports a holistic security strategy with a comprehensive curriculum that educates your employees on topics such as workplace violence mitigation, the proper response in an emergency, protocols for reporting incidents, and threat assessment and investigation.
Without training, your security policies, procedures, measures, technology, and communications do not optimally protect your people, because they either don’t know about them or don’t understand them. Training teaches your key personnel their individual and collective responsibilities in preventing and responding to emergencies, and what they can do to contribute to a safe and secure workplace.
By enhancing your employees’ situational awareness, our training shows them how to take a proactive approach to identifying concerning behaviors in the workplace to keep everyone safe. They will understand the importance of “see something, say something” actions — and what that “something” could be — and how your current policies and procedures protect them.
By exploring best practice principles of emergency management they’ll know what to do and where to go in an emergency. Our training also includes mock scenarios to test employees’ knowledge, such as how to effectively communicate during an emergency using a tool like the Regroup Mass Notification system. Sessions vary in length based on the subject matter, audience, budget, and mode of training. Specialized and advanced training for security departments and personnel covers use of force, case management, and threat assessment, among other areas. Contact one of our Security Advisors for a detailed training proposal.
How safe do your employees feel? Whether they’re physically at the workplace or working remotely, you have a responsibility to provide a safe and secure workplace for them in order to comply with OSHA. Beyond compliance requirements, you also know that employees who feel safe, supported, and valued as people are happier, more productive members of your team.
Your employees are dealing with life stressors in their personal lives, possibly including child care and custody issues, alcohol or drug dependency, increased anxiety due to a spouse’s job loss or uncertainty of their own situation, or even the death or illness of a loved one, whether due to COVID-19 or some other illness. They bring those stressors to work, which experts have found can lead to incidents of workplace violence — from harassment and verbal abuse to physical altercations and active shooter incidents.
Through a comprehensive workplace violence mitigation program, our experienced Security Advisors employ a proven methodology that identifies potential threats and helps you prepare and respond accordingly. Each plan focuses on policies and procedures, Human Resources and Employee Assistance Program resources and support, and emphasizes creating a culture of caring, among other things, that supports your employees’ well-being and ensures they experience a safe, welcoming environment that promotes employee satisfaction and success.
With an extensive career as a police officer, Secret Service agent, Director of Security for the NBA, and security consultant, G. Michael Verden understands how to apply security best practices to your unique setting to safeguard people, property, and assets.