Tehachapi's Online Community News & Entertainment Guide
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With information there is power and with that power, we could save a life or minimize someone's potential liability by recognizing an event that could potentially cause emotional or physical harm to a coworker or someone in our community. California law does not require bystander intervention content, but highly encourages it to be included during the regular mandated sexual harassment training every two years. Upstander Versus Bystander training techniques is also on the rise. Upstander...
This column will take a look at the upcoming Bystander Intervention requirement for management and employees in the workplace. Recently, on The Morning Show's Hiring to Firing podcast, Bystander Responsibility in the Era of #MeToo was the featured topic. The history of the bystander effect goes back to 1968 involving John M. Darley and Bibb Latane, both psychologists who were interested in the murder of Kitty Genovese in 1964 New York City. Years later, bystander intervention became a training m...
Compliance Training Group here with an employee health and wellness update. Winter has definitely been unique and stronger this year than the past few years with the weather. That along with the common cold and flu, new variants of the variants, and allergies altogether in the work environment may have taken a financial hit on some businesses. As employers we want employees to stay home and get well so they don't affect their co-workers. However, that is easier said than done. Most employees...
Having knowledge is your power. Only three weeks into 2023, we have had 39 mass shootings across the nation. One recently confirmed active shooter incident was a disgruntled employee situation. Another unfolded at a workplace, but details are still coming in. If this number of incidents keeps occurring at this frequency, we could be close to 700 mass shootings in 2023. How should an employer deal with these situations and the impact the media coverage inevitably may have on their employees and...
First off, a Happy New Year and welcome to a new column aimed to educate and keep us all safe and free from issues and incidents in the workplace that can be avoided if we have knowledge and awareness. "Knowledge is power," is attributed to Sir Francis Bacon, but it is actually rooted in an ancient Indian proverb. I'd like to encourage small business employers to start the year off by scheduling your California AB1825 (Government Code Section 12950.1) and SB1343 training for the...
