OSHA general duty · continuity
You don’t need a security department. You need about six decisions made in advance.
The thing most likely to hurt a small business is not the event on the news. It is a separation that goes badly, a customer who escalates at the counter, a domestic situation that follows an employee to work, or three days without power in February.
The post-termination window, not the employment period.
Workplace violence prevention gets discussed as though the risk is a stranger walking through the door. In practice a substantial share of workplace attacks are carried out by former employees after separation — which means the highest-exposure moment in your business is a conversation you schedule, staff, and control.
That is good news, because it is manageable. Termination protocol, access revocation, a reporting pathway that does not require going through the person you are worried about, and a plan for the two weeks afterward are cheap, unglamorous, and effective.
Separations done safely
Who is in the room, when it happens, what gets revoked and when, and what the fortnight afterward looks like.
De-escalation for customer-facing staff
Often young, often lightly trained, and the ones absorbing the aggression. Training them is a duty-of-care obligation and a retention measure.
Domestic violence spillover
One of the few threats where a considered employer response has clear protective value — and one almost nobody plans for.
Fraud and wire verification
Out-of-band callback to a pre-established number, enforced as policy. It has to hold up against a convincing voice on the phone.
You probably already have a safety culture. We extend it.
The aviation supplier base and the wider Wichita manufacturing ecosystem is unusual among small-business markets: mature safety programmes, existing OSHA-driven processes, and a real budget line for safety. We are not creating the budget category from scratch — we are adding the parts that a traditional safety programme does not cover.
- Workplace violence prevention programme. Policy, reporting pathway, threat assessment process, and training, built to fit the safety management system you already run.
- Emergency action planning. All-hazards, including tornado sheltering assessed against actual headcount and the best-available refuge area in your building.
- Business continuity. Essential functions, recovery time objectives, vital records, and the single-person dependencies that quietly run your operation.
- CPTED review. Parking, lighting, approaches, entries, and the after-dark picture — assessed at more than one time of day, because that is when it changes.
On tenant and lender requirements. Property managers increasingly require tenant emergency plans, and lenders ask continuity questions. If somebody has handed you a requirement you are not sure how to meet, that is a short conversation and often a short engagement.
Small, specific, and finished.
- Scored entry assessment. About an hour of your time. A ranked list of what would actually hurt you, and the items that cost nothing to fix.
- The documented assessment. If it is warranted — all-hazards and CPTED, scored, site-specific, and defensible to an insurer or an attorney.
- Policies and plans. Workplace violence prevention, emergency action plan, continuity — written to be used, not to be filed.
- Training. De-escalation, situational awareness, active threat response, Stop the Bleed. Delivered on site, around your shift pattern.
- A tabletop. Two hours with your leadership, a realistic scenario, and an honest list of what broke.
What people ask us first
We are under fifty employees. Is this overkill?
No, but the scale of it should match you. For a business your size the whole point is a small number of decisions made in advance and written down — not a security programme. If we think you need less than you asked for, we will say so.
Our insurance broker suggested we do something. Where do we start?
Start with the scored entry assessment. It is fixed-fee, takes about an hour of your time, and produces a documented, ranked list you can take back to your broker. Many carriers view a current documented assessment favourably, and it is the artefact they are usually asking for.
Do you do active shooter training?
Yes, and we will also tell you honestly that it is rarely the highest-value thing a small business can do first. Separation protocol, de-escalation for front-line staff, and bleeding control usually address more realistic exposure. We are happy to deliver the active threat training too — we just will not lead with it.
How much does it cost?
The entry assessment is a fixed fee. Everything after that is quoted by scope — building count, headcount, and what is actually in scope — and we quote a fixed price rather than an hourly rate, because hourly invites scope anxiety and you deserve to know the number.
Do you sell cameras, alarms, or software?
No, and we take no referral fees from anyone who does. If our assessment says you need a camera at a particular door, we make nothing from that recommendation and have no reason to make it unless it is true.
Most of what we find in the first hour costs nothing to fix.
Give us thirty minutes. We will walk the place with you and tell you what we see. If none of it is worth acting on, you have lost half an hour — and you will know that too.