Risk Mitigation & HR Solutions
The recent annual Pinkerton Organization survey of Fortune 1000 companies identified six out of the top ten security threats facing companies as coming from inside - from the firm's own staff. The threats identified were workplace violence, employee selection/screening, fraud, general employee theft, unethical business conduct, and drugs/alcohol in the workplace.
Additionally, a new and emerging threat that concerns many employers is the inappropriate use/misuse by staff of company resources, including computers and the Internet.
These, of course, aren't the only threats. There is the risk of injury to staff and/or clients, disaster, accident, victimization by some form of crime, or the impact of a global avian flu pandemic on a company's capacity to meet their strategic objectives.
Canpro Pacific Services Inc. offers a variety of risk mitigation solutions, both through its investigative and technical services, and through its affiliation with Canpro Training Resources Inc. and HR Screening.ca
While it is not only a good business practice to address threats in the workplace, new Criminal Code of Canada amendments raise the potential for employers to face criminal charges relating to criminal negligence if they fail to take steps to protect workers. In British Columbia, WorkSafeBC (formerly the Workers' Compensation Board) requires employers to identify and address the risk of workplace violence.
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