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What the SAFETY Act of 2002 Means for Your Company

By Barbara A. Duncombe and David A. Carr

Picture this: Your company rents space in a newly constructed, state-of-the-art, downtown office building. The security measures installed are heralded as iron clad but un-intrusive ' face recognition, voice recognition, retina scan, etc. Shortly after you move in, on a rainy Friday afternoon, a disgruntled former employee gets off the elevator and starts shooting. Although no one, fortunately, is killed before your receptionist, a former Navy Seal, tackles the former employee to the ground and disarms him, several employees are injured, some seriously, and everyone is shook up emotionally.

What happens next is that management calls you, asking what they should do. Besides getting an answer to the overarching question of “How could this happen?”, in the real world, you start worrying about who may sue your company and who your company should be suing. The law suits soon will be flying and mounting. What if there was an alternative ' an easier, cheaper and simpler alternative? Try looking into the SAFETY Act of 2002 and what it offers.

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