Category: Threat Assessment
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Emergency Planning, Onsite Security, Threat Assessment
Is School Safety a Matter of Perception?
Michele Gay and Alissa Parker are the mothers of two of the Sandy Hook school shooting victims Josephine Grace Gay and Emilie Parker. They used their personal tragedy to form a national nonprofit safety advocacy and resource center committed to protecting every school and every student every day. A recent report authored by Gay and
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Hiring Due Dilligence, Threat Assessment
Mitigate Risk With A Professional Security Provider
We live in a time when it seems like crime is on the rise. Tensions are growing and violence, especially in the workplace, is no longer a rare occurrence. Business owners outsourcing security is becoming a necessary cost of doing business. It is important to vet your potential security services provider. What happens if a
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Hiring Due Dilligence, Threat Assessment, Training Security Teams
Is Armed Security a Viable Option?
The workplace is a common site of hostilities, with approximately 2 million Americans falling victim to workplace violence each year. The presence of firearms is not always the answer as it can escalate situations far more than they would have needed to be. However, in today’s world, there are places that should have armed security.
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Emergency Planning, Hiring Due Dilligence, Threat Assessment
Risk Management Equals Peace of Mind
RISK MANAGEMENT (noun) The identification, evaluation, and prioritization of risks followed by coordinated and economical application of resources to minimize, monitor, and control the probability or impact of unfortunate events or to maximize the realization of opportunities. This starts with the identification of the risk. Risk comes in many different forms. There are the obvious
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Emergency Planning, Onsite Security, Threat Assessment
Don’t Think Your Business Needs Security?
Think Again. All too often, we hear from business owners in a state of panic because their business has just had its first security incident. They’re worried and frustrated and want to do what it takes to protect their business, employees, and customers from further harm. New businesses and those who have never had a
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Emergency Planning, Threat Assessment, Training Security Teams
Controlling Disruptive Behavior
MAP – Managing Agitated Persons At Teachout Security, we devote a significant amount of our resources to interacting with agitated people. Many times, they are justified. They have just been victimized or assaulted and their world is suddenly in a state of flux. Other times, they are the perpetrator of the crime and have been
Emergency Planning, Threat Assessment
ACTIVE SHOOTER! ACTIVE SHOOTER!
No two words have ever conjured up more fear and panic than the announcement that an armed individual is attempting to randomly kill people in an area nearby. They are totally unpredictable. One second, everything is quiet and normal. In the next second, the unmistakable crack of gunfire is erupting around you, people are running
Emergency Planning, Threat Assessment
Implementing a Threat Assessment Process in Schools
“Prevention must start before there is a gunman at the school door.” ~ Professor Dewey Cornell Liberty Mutual Insurance Company is widely known for its wacky television commercials featuring LiMu the Emu and his inept human cohort Doug, played by actor David Hoffman. What many people do not know is that Liberty Mutual is one
Emergency Planning, Threat Assessment
Protecting Your Children’s Future
It’s not enough that Teachout Security is one of the highest qualified security providers in the Midwest. We also have a commitment to be prepared for and overcome any threat that arises in the communities that we serve. On August 2, a leadership team led by President Joe Cozart attended the 3-day Ohio School Safety
Emergency Planning, Threat Assessment
Ticking…
Is Workplace Violence an After-Effect of COVID? In her recent article titled 15 Disturbing Workplace Violence Statistics for 2022,” technology and social commentator Teodora Dobrilova chronicled some of the darker ways in which the pandemic has affected our society. The stress of isolation and uncertainty of the information regarding the disease has caused an uptick