Here is an excerpt from the article, which was written in response to our news release about Jane’s Workplace Security Handbook and includes a mention of the handbook and of Jane's:
 
Create a crisis-management plan

Although not every company will have the same degree of risk, every company should have a crisis-management plan--not only for potential terrorist attacks but also for natural disasters, fires, and workplace violence. The goal of such a plan is to protect employees and the business while an incident is occuring and minimize the damage to both. Jane's Workplace Security Handbook suggests a close tie between the threat assessment and crisis plan, saying that security policies and procedures should be "based on the priorites identified by the threat assessment team."
 
One major portion of a crisis-management plan, Jane's says, is designating the team that will set security policies and procedures and the team or teams that will coordinate responses in various types of emergency situations. (Those two groups may be the same.) Depending on the size and distribution of your organization, the crisis-management team can include representatives from risk management, HR, IT, facility management, media relations, senior management, and local fire and police department representatives."

SECURITY MANAGEMENT
July 2003
Circulation: 30,486 (print)
65,000 visitors/month online
 
REVIEWS
 
JANE'S WORKPLACE SECURITY HANDBOOK
By Paul Viollis, et al.; published by Jane's Information Group;
available from ASIS International, Item #1521, 703/519/6200 (phone),
www.asisonline.org (Web); 370 pages; $34 (ASIS members),
$38 (nonmembers).
 
Jane's Information Group has a deserved reputation for practical, useful publications.  This new workplace security handbook continues that tradition.  The almost-pocket-sized handbook teems with checklists and procedures related to planning for, responding to, and recovering from virtually any type of workplace threat. 
 
Written by a team with impressive credentials, under the leadership of an editor with more than 20 years of law enforcement and corporate security experience, this book is crammed with good advice in its 10 chapters.  These chapters comprise planning, facility security, personnel security, travel security, information security, emergency response procedures, crisis communications, critical incident stress, organizational recovery, and sample policies.
 
Jane's Workplace Security Handbook can't be a security professional's single reference for preparing and planning for violence in the workplace–such a thing probably doesn't even exist.  But with its reasonable cost, convenient format, easy portability, and excellent content, the book is certainly a worthwhile investment.
 
Reviewer: Mayer Nudell, CSC, is a security consultant in Falls Church, Virginia.  He is the former chairman of the Terrorist Activities Subcommittee of the National Capital Chapter of ASIS International. (END)

WORKPLACE VIOLENCE PREVENTION REPORTER
North Vancouver, BC, Canada
Quarterly
Jan-Mar 2003
 
BOOKS
 
Jane's Workplace Security Handbook (spiral-bound, 346 pages; Jane's; www.janes.com; 1-800-824-0768; 2002; $32.50 each for first nine copies, then quantity discounts.)
 
It doesn't matter where in the world a company is located, violent events around the globe prove that all locations are vulnerable to violence. This new publication by the British publisher Jane's, which specializes in security, weaponry, and intelligence information, provides practical advice for assessing global security issues large and small. The handbook includes detailed checklists and procedures to help plan for a response and recovery from security threats and breaches. (END)