Essential Writings in Violence Risk Assessment and Management
Edited by Hy Bloom & Christopher D. Webster
With Essential Writings, mental health and legal practitioners have quick access to the most important peer-reviewed writings in the field. Covering a field that crosses civil, forensic and correctional boundaries, this book is a valuable resource for clinicians, lawyers, judges, law enforcement officials, health and correctional administrators, journalists and anyone working in the forensic system. Read more...  

 

 

Cooling Out
This two-part video is designed to help anyone who deals with the public and faces disruptive behaviour such as threats, sexual harassment, destruction of property, assault or other behaviour that could pose a threat to personal safety. Read more... 

 

 

Safer Bars Program
In bars, aggression by some customers, followed by violence and injuries, often happens. Fueled by alcohol, some customers resort to threats, intimidation, fights, mischief, vandalism, property damage and driving while intoxicated. Safer Bars helps bar staff prevent these occurrences thereby keeping customers and others safer. The program includes a 3-hour training for bar staff on managing aggressive customers.

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Safer Bars Training
The purpose of the training is to increase bar staff’s ability to work as a team to reduce the risk of customers becoming aggressive, violent or injured. The training is conducted by a skilled, experienced trainer, and is 3 hours long. Read more... 

 

 

Safer Bars: Assessing and Reducing the Risks of Violence
by Kathryn Graham
This easy-to-use workbook helps bar owners reduce the risk of aggression and violence in their bars. Using a checklist method, owners can identify and reduce the risk factors in their bars. Read more...

 

 

Safer Bars: Do you know the law?
This easy-to-read booklet describes the legal and legislative environment that bars in Ontario must comply with to avoid the legal and financial repercussions of not keeping customers safe and out of harm’s way. Specific liability cases illustrate the legal reality in which bars operate. Read more... 

 

 

No More Risky Business: A Guide to Reducing Alcohol Liability
by Larry Grand
No More Risky Business has been written for bar managers, bar owners and other licensees who recognize the need to write detailed policies for their staff and to write and post “house rules” for their customers. Comprehensive in its scope, No More Risky Business attempts to make bars safer while keeping licensees out of trouble with regulators, the police or injured parties intent on suing them. By keeping bars safer, our communities will also be safer. Read more...