Hawkeye Prepared

What is a High-Risk Termination?
Truth be told, it can be any termination that the employer believes may be dangerous or pose a threat to other employees or the facility/ company itself. In most cases these terminations are for cause and involve a single individual but a simple reduction in force (RIF) lay-off situation can not be excluded from the possible threat.

How does an employer decide that a particular situation warrants a High-Risk
Termination approach?
There are a number of factors that will stack the deck in favor of a High-Risk Termination
approach. They can include a past history of violent acts, verbal threats, threats made by
electronic means, statements made to co-workers, intentional acts of company sabotage & social media posts, just to name a few.

What can be done to reduce the risk?
When it comes to High-Risk Terminations, we wrote the book on this! In fact, High Risk
Terminations have been the catalyst of so many acts of workplace violence and workplace active shooter events, that it was the main motivator behind the creation of the Workplace Violence Mitigation (WVM) © solution and brand that you see before you!

First of all, understand that there is no absolute solution to this problem. There are however ways to greatly reduce the risk or “Mitigate” it. Anyone that tells you they have an absolute resolution is simply not telling you the truth.

The mitigation process begins long before a violent incident unfolds, otherwise your plan is
simply LUCK.

The solution is multi-faceted and includes site surveys and policy, practice and procedural (PPP) review (Makton Investigations & Consulting). It includes thoroughly vetting everyone that works in your facility and holding your vendors who frequent your property to the same standards (CLS Background Investigations) and it includes training your employees on how to react when confronted with an actual act of violence, in and out of the workplace (Hawkeye Active Shooter Response Training). It includes reliable, well vetted resources such as a physical security presence that can deploy to your location quickly and secure the facility in the event of an escalated threat. It includes legal representation, well versed in managing this type of incident.

Most importantly, it means having ALL of things ready long before an incident occurs. The
sound of gunfire should not be a signal to start your internet search for solutions.

What can I do right now?
Contact us for an initial phone evaluation of your present situation! Together we can save lives and livelihoods. Call Hawkeye Prepared at 815-836-0236 or email us at hawkeye@wvmteam.com