STAFF SAFETY
- As a New Zealand-based business, you have a legal duty of care.
- Are you exercising that duty?
- At FearFree, we understand the needs of businesses.
- We understand the impact that a rising violent crime rate has.
- We understand what it’s like to be impacted by a natural disaster.
- Staff Safety Workshops for all levels.
That’s why we’ve created the best resources in the county to keep your staff safe, minimise risk in the workplace, and help your business perform its duty of care in an efficient — and cost efficient — manner.
In addition to our corporate travel safety packages and armed robbery training workshops, we offer personalised consulting, training and the following workshops:
- Dealing with aggressive people in the workplace
- Critical Incident Management for front-line and executive management
- Earthquake and Natural Disaster Training
All our workshops combine the best elements of United Nations security courses and the knowledge and expertise of the New Zealand police force, and are delivered by experienced experts in the fields of corporate and personal safety.
If you need help in deciding what your business needs, let us know and we can provide suggestions and an obligation-free quote tailored to your organisation’s needs.
Dealing with aggressive people in the workplace
Customer Conflict Awareness Workshop- 3 hours
If your staff are likely to face unpleasant or aggressive people while performing their tasks, you need to equip them with the skills they need. All front-line staff might find themselves in threatening situations, especially those working in a small team or out on the streets.
We’re not talking about martial arts training here: we’re talking about the realistic things that every person is capable of to help diffuse a potentially nasty situation.
The principles of personal safety revolve around avoiding stand-off situations, seeing how trouble develops, and how to escape or minimise damage if things do go pear shaped.
Sounds like common sense? Sometimes common sense isn’t all that common!
TV shows have given your staff the wrong script: the one that creates a fight, leaving you with a potentially costly, if not deadly, problem.
Make sure you are looking after your people and your business: give us a call today.
The solution: our workshop for dealing with aggressive people in the workplace-Customer Conflict Awareness Workshop-3 hours
We run workshops designed for frontline, teaching staff, city council officers, security and emergency staff, duty managers, reception staff and night-shift workers.
We can customise workshops to your organisation’s specific needs.
In addition to being friendly, engaging and cost-effective, our workshops include:
- Discussion on violence and aggression in the workplace.
- An overview of New Zealand law regarding self defence,assault,robbery and trespassing.
- Identifying key body language and impending signs of an attack.
- How to perform quick, accurate threat/risk assessments.
- How to de-escalate potentially violent situations.
- Personal safety advice, for use both within out outside the workplace.
- Simple, easy-to-remember techniques for escaping dangerous situations.
There is no limit to group size, and training can be run at your workplace. Call or email for a free quote.
Is your top-level team ready for critical incident management?
What happens when the unexpected hits? An earthquake or tsunami? A fast-moving fire? A bomb threat? A shooting?
What will your management team do: from the executives to line managers? Will your staff be safe? It’s our goal to make sure they are.
We’ve got the international expertise and years of local experience to help you streamline your procedures and policies, then deliver world-class training to your staff.
Terrorist bomb threat or drug-inspired shooting
It seems like a bad movie script or an overseas news story, but how would your staff react to a bomb threat, aggressive druggie, or an armed intruder?
We don’t want to see the current trends of violent crime increasing in New Zealand any more that you do, but we do want to make sure as few people get hurt as possible.
We can help you create or revise policies for out-of-the-ordinary security risks and ensure everyone in your organisation knows how to handle themselves.
Earthquakes, Tsunami and Volcanic Eruptions: Natural Disaster Procedures and Training
Recently, the Pacific Rim has been more active than it’s been for years: Chile, the States, Japan, Thailand and our own Christchurch have recently been hit with disastrous earthquakes and tsunamis. The earth can do a lot of damage to our homes and workplaces, and it seems there’s nothing we can do to stop it.
We can, however, give you and your staff the highest chance of survival when tragedy strikes.
Our analysts and consultants can work with you to create world-class disaster policies and our training team can ensure everyone knows what to do — in a safe, fun, non-threatening way.
After all, no-one wants to be paranoid about disasters that might happen, they just want to know their best course of action if things do go wrong. We understand: we’re here to help with that.
The solution: our critical incident management workshop
How do you go from being a manager or supervisor to leading a team during an emergency situation? We can show you how the United Nations Humanitarian Service trains its managers to do just that.
Our critical Incident Management workshop is a Kiwi take on an international humanitarian model of leadership. It’s how the UN reacts to emergency situations: it’s world-class and no-nonsense.
In a full-day or half-day workshop, we cover:
- New Zealand’s specific legal and environmental issues.
- How local emergency services will respond to an emergency.
- The United Nations model for dealing with an extreme emergency.
- Measures to ensure you and your organisation are prepared.
- Techniques for leaders and teams under stress.
- How to save your team and yourself.
- A warden’s role and responsibilities.
- How to deal with stress and stress responses.
- Group based scenarios relevant to your workplace.
- How management can plan for such events.
- How does policy and induction training assist in survival.
This workshop is designed for line-managers and executives who might have to step up to the plate and lead in an emergency situation. It’s ideal for public and private organisations, corporates, accommodation providers, restaurant, café and gallery owners and senior staff, retail and office-space owners and managers, as well as all small- and medium-sized business owners who want to look after their staff.
Need some help or a review of current policy?
You probably have policies that deal with all these kind of things, but when was the last time anyone actually looked at them? When was the last time they were updated? Have they ever been tested, and were the results any good?
We can do a full and professional review of your current policies, find all the weaknesses and overhaul them. We can even test them with simulated exercises and combine that with staff straining.
Unlike your poor, overworked Human Resources team, we live and breathe security every day: we can rework your procedures to world-class standard quickly and cheaply. We understand that your business can’t afford a full-time security analyst, so our experienced consultants and instructors are ready to help.
Give us a call or email us today: we’ll get straight back to you with a plan and an obligation-free quote.
