What is SGSecure@Workplaces

You may take steps to train your employees and ready your workforce to react to a terror attack. This will minimise loss of lives and disruptions to business operations.

Training

Train your employees and colleagues so that they can respond effectively in a crisis.

• Run · Hide · Tell
  Know what to do if there is a terror attack.
• Press » Tie » Tell
  Know how to help stop bleeding by applying improvised First Aid Skills (IFAS).
• Briefing slides
  Training slides for SGSecure reps to learn how to stay vigilant and respond effectively during a terror attack.
• Lesson plans
  How to use our educational information and guides to conduct short training sessions for employees at your workplace.
• Tips on preparing your workforce
  Tips on what to do in a firearms or weapons attack.
• Review your crisis preparedness plans through common simulation exercises
  Suggestions on how to prepare your workforce for a terror attack.
• Staying safe and vigilant when travelling overseas
  Suggestions on what employers and employees may do to ensure their safety when overseas.
• Roles and responsibilities in recovery efforts
  Preparedness measures to take during peacetime and key tasks for employees, managers and employers in the immediate aftermath.

Team of responders

Identify and develop a team of responders with relevant skills to minimise damage and loss after a crisis.

• Crisis response team - Template
  Organise your company's crisis response team according to functions such as crisis communications, human resource, etc.
• A guide to basic psychological first aid
  Train a group of employees in PFA skills so they may help co-workers cope with situations.

Build a cohesive workforce

Build a cohesive workforce that is resilient against attacks and can recover quickly after a crisis.

• CEP implementation guide for employers
  Practical steps and initiatives to help you build a resilient and united workforce. Also available in Mandarin.
• Bridging differences, forging cohesion
  Tips to strengthen your corporate social fabric.
• Strengthening relationships within your community
  Tips to build relationships within your organisation and within your building or building network.
• Staying united during and after crises
  Tips to help workplaces overcome a crisis.
• Creating awareness of terror threats amongst employees
  Suggestions on how to educate your employees and sensitise them to terror threats.
• Promoting an inclusive workforce
  5 steps you may take to create an inclusive work environment.

Posters

Download and display the posters at your workplace. You may also hand them to your co-workers to sensitise them to a terror threat.

• Stay united during crisis
• Be a responder
• Be familiar with your evacuation routes
• Be vigilant and report - Person
• Be vigilant and report - Parcel
• Assess and manage your risks

Brochures

Print and distribute during security drills. You may also download and hand them to your co-workers to sensitise them to a terror threat.

Staying alert, staying united, staying strong

Also available in Bengali, Mandarin, and Tamil.

You may take steps to build resilience into the physical and digital infrastructure of your business, and ensure business continuity even after a terror attack.

Physical protection measures

Implement physical protection measures for your workplace.

• Protect your workplace: Security measures to mitigate potential terror threats
  Recommendations to strengthen workplace protection.
• Protect your workplace: Cyber security measures to prevent a data breach
  Recommendations to strengthen cyber security at your workplace.
• Protect your workplace: Physical protection measures that you may adopt for your workplace
• Learning points from past terror attacks:
  • 2019 Medan attack
  • 2019 Bangkok, Texas, Ohio attacks
  • 2019 Sri Lanka bombing attacks
  • 2019 Christchurch attack
  • 2018 Strasbourg attack
  • 2018 French supermarket gun attack
  • 2017 Manhattan attack
  • 2017 New York attack
  • 2017 Spain attacks
  • 2017 London Bridge attacks
  • 2017 Manchester attacks

Manage risks

Manage your workplace safety and security risks.

• Getting on board the bizSAFE journey
  Sign up for WSHC's bizSAFE to improve your workplace safety, health, and security capabilities.
• Developing a Business Continuity Plan (BCP)
  Create a BCP to enhance your company's resilience to potential disruptions such as a terror attack, and minimise the impact of such disruptions by having back-up plans in place.
• Enhancing workplace preparedness with table-top exercises (TTX)
  Learn how to conduct TTX and identify gaps in your company's current contingency plans in dealing with terror attacks or emergencies.

Here are the resources you may use to create networks to help your organisation communicate information swiftly during crisis.

Enhance communication capabilities

• List of important organisations, services and authorities
  Useful contacts to get information and sign up for courses on emergency response plans, business continuity, and other training initiatives.
• Call tree - Template
  Provides overall view of your company's crisis communication plan by listing out the call chart and personnel involved.
• Employees' details - Template
  Make a list of your employees' particulars, such as next-of-kin details, emergency skills (e.g. CPR), drug allergies, etc.
• Enhancing your communication capabilities
  Tips on how to better communicate with internal and external stakeholders in the event of a crisis.
• Establishing your network
  Tips on how to strengthen community networks to support each other in the event of emergencies.
• Crisis communications
  Tips on how to create a crisis communications plan so that you can be ready to deal with a crisis when it happens.