Create safer and more resilient staff when dealing with the risks of aggressive customers, shoplifting & robbery
Click on the above for a quick intro into the series of QRT online courses.
QRT has created this online Situational Awareness Course, with additional modules to help keep you and your team safe. With over ten years in onsite training, we now bring that safety & security expertise direct to you online.
Retail NZ chief executive Greg Harford said the magnitude of the issue documented in the report in 2017 was still the same today, and the industry continued to see a rise in aggression and violence by thieves - as reported in this article
Situational Awareness Online Course
+ How To Deal Aggressive Customer Situations
+ How To Manage Shoplifting
+ How To Stay Safe In A Robbery
As an employer who cares, you want to make sure that your people have the skills to respond appropriately when aggressive based incidents occur at work.
Aggressive customer incidents are on the increase, shoplifting is a multi billion dollar loss affecting all retail businesses, and the risk of robbery is real. This course bundle is ideal for retail, hospitality, and customer facing businesses. Safe guard your people.
Situational Awareness taught as a life skill with a focus on aggressive customers, shoplifting and robbery gives your staff confidence and resilience to help deal with these stressful situations.
Health Safety & Security Champions and People Leaders
Contact us directly and see how we can put together a bulk pricing package for your company.
Want your message, your logo, your champions to front this course - No problem, we are super agile, and can animate, record and insert your messages - You will then have an enduring co designed situational awareness course, that’s truly unique to your organisation
Course Overview
We understand risk exists and we know that bad stuff happens to good people everyday, so providing tools to your people to help increase situational awareness when dealing with aggressive customers, shoplifting and robbery is a life skill that matters.
We’ve spent over 10 years developing these courses and have delivered it to hundreds of clients, in New Zealand, Australia and abroad. From corporates to students, hospitality staff to NGO ‘s. The aim of our courses really is to make the world safer, one client at a time.
Clients tell us they learn simple strategies and tips using situational awareness, to keep them safe at work and beyond.
This course is completed online at your own pace, and is a nice mix of video, animation, story telling with some easy chapter quizzes to help lock in the learnings. There is also a free downloadable worksheet for team course discussion and debrief.
Chapters
Chapter One - A course welcome
Chapter Two - It’s a risky world - understanding risk in your world and defining situational awareness
Chapter Three - Being situationally aware - working up your risk model framework
Chapter Four - Situational Awareness - Life skills guiding principles
Chapter Five - How to confidantly deal with aggressive customers
Chapter Six - An introduction to law 101 as it relates to shoplifting & robbery
Chapter Seven - How to manage shoplifting situations
Chapter Eight - How to stay safe in a Robbery
Chapter Nine - Wrapping it all up
Course Outcomes
Clearly defined learning outcomes for participants,
Demonstrate how engaging situational awareness reduces risk and injury in the workplace and beyond it
Apply the practical Q6 risk framework to reduce aggressive customer situations and there impact on people safety & security
Demonstrate an understanding of shoplifting and robbery definitions and the different types of this criminal offending & how they occur
Apply the practical Q6 risk framework to identify, reduce and stay safe in shoplifting offending situations
Apply the practical Q6 risk framework to stay safe during a robbery situation
Employ the Q6 risk model framework that can be applied to any situation - anywhere
Chapter Overviews
Chapter One
A course welcome, providing backstory and context. It’s there to set the scene and to get the participants to reflect on the risk in their world and think of their current capacity and capability to deal with risk based situations, both at work and beyond.
Chapter Two
It’s a risky world - An opportunity to understand what risk is in your environment and in your world
Defining & measuring risk
Understand how our body responds under stress and risky situations
Define what Situational Awareness really means
Chapter Three
Being Situationally Aware - It’s no good just understanding its definition, in this chapter we explore how to adopt it through our risk framework
Your risk plan
Adopting RSTOPA on a daily basis
How to work through any situation anywhere
Chapter Four
Situational Awareness - Daily habits to live by. Adopt these guiding principles and practice them on a consistent basis and it goes a long way to turning habits into life skills. Skills for the workplace and beyond
Be a hard target
Spheres of influence
The power of what if conversations
Chapter Five
Dealing with aggressive customers. Your personal safety and security is absolutely the priority. In this chapter we learn some simple tools to de escalate upset or angry customer and help lessen the chance of them becoming aggressive.
We then look at the situational awareness strategies through case studies on what to do if they become aggressive.
Chapter Six
An introduction to Law 101 as it relates to shoplifting and robbery. It’s important to get a basic understanding of what these offences are and the ingredients involved when they are being committed
We won’t qualify you as a lawyer but we will give you a basic understanding of what these different but similar crimes are.
Chapter Seven
Shoplifting is simply theft, and it is costing businesses tens of millions of dollars every year. It occurs in many retail businesses every single day. But there are strategies you can adopt to reduce this constant risk. In this chapter you will also learn the skill that is the single greatest deterrent to shoplifting
Chapter Eight
Robbery is theft accompanied by violence or threats of violence. The risk is absolutely real, but its not all shotguns and balaclava’s. An aggressive customer, on drugs, interrupted whilst stealing, becomes violent and lashes out at your staff - You now have a robbery. This chapter focuses on how to stay safe in these real scenarios
Chapter Nine
A course summary where we wrap it all up and provide you with tools and resources to take away and help cement the learnings.
Situational awareness, the single greatest skill you can acquire for your personal safety and security. Nothing is more important, at work, in travel, in life !
Noreen’s Story - A QRisk Case Study
We are so proud to have Noreen as a QRisk ambassador. Through the telling of her incredible story, the principles of our situational awareness course come to life - put yourself in her shoes what would you do ? Noreen has an ongoing relationship with us, and even appears at the odd presentation, to help tell her story as a way to educate others in the value of Situational Awareness training. Her key message is "follow your gut instinct", when a situation doesn't feel right, it isn't. Then put a plan in place and ACT.
Gutsy Noreen nails attacker
“I had the power to change the course of events that afternoon. That gut instinct when you see something and it just doesn’t feel right.
Survivor uses her story to educate others
The QRisk training course provided me the skills to identify risk, put in place simple strategies and make good decisions. It won’t happen a second time!”
Noreen is here co presenting to a group of high school students - learn through story.
What our Clients are Saying
“She re-told Noreen's story which obviously made a big impact on her. A fantastic outcome from our perspective Paul, she will certainly be making better and more informed, thoughtful choices. Many thanks for the empowerment and skills you have given her.
Miranda Harcourt
“Probably the best training I have been to. Great leaders running the session, very approachable and down to earth. I wouldn't change anything”
Fund Manager Sydney 2019
“I’m going to summarise everything in one word: Fantastic! The course was a brilliant opportunity to consider situations outside our working environment as this has certainly made me more aware in my personal life as well. A really good opportunity professionally and personally.
Caroline - IAG NZ
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Contact us
Phone: +64 21 2010871
PO Box 301779, Albany 0752
Auckland, New Zealand