Terri Patterson is a recognized expert in behavioral assessment and risk mitigation and a Principal in Control Risks’ Crisis and Security Consulting practice. Here, Patterson delves into the impact of mental health issues in the corporate environment.

Risk assessments aren’t being done the right way – and that can lead to multiple problems for businesses. It’s time for a risk assessment redo.

Diversity awareness is appreciating and understanding the full and tragic scope of U.S. history, and it matters now more than ever before.

Duty of Care spells out responsibilities an organization has for its people. This includes making the workplace safe, preventing risks to health, and ensuring safe working practices are set up and followed. There is a lot to deal with between these areas and the onus is on a variety of managers to ensure nothing falls between those cracks.

The Canadian Centre for Occupational Health and Safety (CCOHS) has put out a free online course for organizations to assess their COVID-19 workplace risk.

Communicating risk through risk quantification and crisis scenario planning, offers many benefits to the security leader and the organization.

Anyone with access to your organization — employee, contractor, former employee, etc. — poses a potential risk to the enterprise. So, what is insider threat; who should own an insider risk mitigation program within the enterprise; and most importantly, how can security leaders assess and mitigate the risk?

To maintain a unified security and safety operation during closure, many museums and cultural heritage institutions have relied on tried-and-true security and risk management practices, and repurposed their time and energy to reassess, monitor and explore additional risk-mitigation measures to safely reopen and welcome the public back through their doors.