Workforce Risk Management Archives

Enhancing Workplace Safety: Insights from HR Executives

Whether in-office, remote or hybrid, ensuring the safety and well-being of your employees is one of the most important (if not the most important)…

Workplace Violence Prevention in Action – Q&A With an Expert

Matt Doherty, Managing Director of Workforce Risk Management at Sikich, shares his expertise in creating workplace violence prevention programs. This content is adapted from…

Protecting Schools From Targeted Violence

In 2023, campus safety is on all our minds. This year is one of the deadliest for gun violence on record,1 and the U.S….

Bullying in the Remote Workplace: What It Looks Like and How to Mitigate It

Three years after the start of the Pandemic, remote work has become permanent for 35% of the American workforce, while another 41% work on…

Reporting is Supporting: Keeping Your Employees Safe with Workplace Violence Prevention

The term “workplace violence” has become part of the American consciousness, conjuring frightening daily headlines about bogeymen with deadly weapons targeting offices, distribution centers,…

Leaders can be Insider Risks, too: A Cautionary Tale from “The Emperor’s New Clothes”

Insider risk detection is often focused on employee behaviors, sometimes ignoring the risks of toxic leadership. As a result, sometimes the overarching goal of…

Tax Implications of Security Measures for C-Suite Executives

The security and protection of an organization’s high-profile employees should never be overlooked. Throughout our country’s history, people in the public spotlight have often…

When School Shootings Don’t Happen: Keeping Your Campus Safe

An analysis of averted school violence conducted in 2021 by the National Police Foundation and the U.S. Department of Justice’s Office of Community Oriented…

The Importance of Screening Candidates in Today’s Tight Job Market

How do employers hire in today’s overly competitive, fast-paced talent market while thoroughly evaluating and screening candidates? Employers continue to face challenges due to…

OSHA + NIOSH Play Key Roles in Protecting Workers from Violence in the Workplace

If a bright triangular slip-and-fall sign is the first picture that pops into your head when thinking about the Occupational Safety and Health Administration…

Assessing Prevention in Action

I’m excited to share my inaugural blog as Managing Director of Workforce Risk Management at Sikich. Our goal is to use this blog as…