Issue 5 2024

Corporate Vision The World Leader in Workplace Violence Prevention When Threat Assessment Group® (TAG) Inc. was founded in 1987 with an unwavering devotion to preventing workplace violence and misconduct, it was the first company of its kind in the world. Six years later, it became the first to offer formal training in the field, truly underpinning its commitment to the cause. More than 30 years later, TAG’s philosophy of, “Safety First, Fairness Second” remains steadfast and its work is as pioneering as ever. In recognition of these continued efforts, we name TAG Inc. as the Most Trusted Workplace Violence Prevention Experts 2024, and catch up with renowned Founder Park Dietz, MD, PhD for more. Adopting its philosophy from the guiding ethics and values of medicine and public health, all of the methods TAG employs across its suite of products and services are expertly derived from areas such as psychiatry, psychology, and criminology, with these methods being combined with the team’s decades of experience to create something truly special. It was about ten years before his founding of the business that Dr. Dietz first consulted on a corporate threat case, on his first day teaching at Harvard Medical School. On the drive to the corporate location, Dr. Dietz recognised that there were four key areas of expertise necessary to settle matters such as this, these being injury prevention, mental disorder, criminal behaviour, and threatening communications. Luckily, he had already pioneered an industry-leading study on threatening communications toward public figures and managed to resolve the case successfully. As he gained experience working with the criminally insane, with the FBI pioneers in profiling, with corporations, and working on some of the most high-profile murder cases of the 20th century, he saw that much more needed to be done to mitigate the harms of violence in the workplace before crises emerged. Thus, TAG was founded to fulfil this very need. Experts in providing systematic and proactive prevention through their development and delivery of cutting-edge solutions, the team at TAG have spent the better part of 40 years now partnering with some of the most famous brands on the planet, helping them develop systems that consistently mitigate workplace misconduct. As Dr. Dietz himself explains, “our mission is to help protect the safety of employees and others in the workplace with early warning systems, prompt and fair investigation, management of reported misconduct and disruptive behaviours, and training across every level of the organisation.” A similarly proactive approach has been provided since day one, however, having operated in this sector now for more than 35 years, innovation has been an instrumental factor in TAG’s continued

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