Safe Termination Resources
Safe termination is a planned approach to ending employment that reduces risk and preserves dignity. These resources will help you prepare for and conduct safe terminations.
Available Resources
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Safe Termination Video Series
Together, these three videos show you how to turn a difficult employment separation into a coordinated threat management process that protects people and preserves dignity.
Why Employment Actions Matter
Employment separations should be treated as a process rather than a single moment, because the behaviors that precede an action often matter more than the meeting itself.
A Practical Safer Separation Tip
Before a difficult separation, start with a plan built around five key questions rather than the meeting itself, shifting from a termination event to a threat management process.
Common Mistakes
Three common missteps, excluding the threat management team, using security as intimidation, and ending the plan when the meeting ends, can turn a difficult separation into a more dangerous one.
Safe Terminations: Case Studies in Preventing Workplace Violence During Layoffs and Employee Separations
Involuntary terminations and layoffs are among the highest short-term risk periods for workplace violence (WPV), threats, harassment, and post-employment retaliation.
Poorly managed processes can amplify grievances
This document offers a practitioner’s perspective on safe termination, using real-world case references to illustrate where employment actions break down and how threat management principles keep them on track.
Safe Termination Checklist
Dealing with a high-risk termination? Use this screening checklist to assess behavioral and situational indicators that may elevate the risk of violence, retaliation, or other threats during an employee termination.
Termination Guides
To help you navigate the landscape of involuntary terminations, we’ve accumulated
Manufacturing
Safe Termination Guide
This guide addresses the specific separation risks of manufacturing environments, where site access and industrial hazards can turn a poorly planned termination into a triggering event, and lays out a structured, team-based approach to keeping employment actions safe and controlled.
Corporate
Safe Termination Guide
When an organization decides to terminate employment or conduct layoffs, the separation itself can become a triggering event that accelerates risk, especially when an employee has an active grievance, recent destabilizing stressors, or a history of problematic behavior.
Mass Termination
Best Practices
This guide provides a practical framework for planning and conducting mass layoffs, reductions in force, site closures, and coordinated employment separations.
Paid Training & Consultation
This section contains more advanced support and done-for-you solutions. These training options are perfect if you want the experts to help you develop your safe termination program.
Safe Termination
Procedure
- Internal procedure development, ready to implement across your teams
- Consultation – ensuring your organizational needs are met
- Establishes a consistent, repeatable process across departments
Safe Termination
eLearning
- Uploads directly to your LMS
- Short digital training (~13 minutes)
- Perpetual license; use it indefinitely to consistently train your HR and Security teams
Safe Termination Live
Training
- Advanced training and considerations for safer terminations
- Hands-on learning with CPPS experts
- Q&A – addressing your team’s specific nuances and challenges
Threat Management
Team Retainer
- CPPS experts on call 24/7 for a full year
- Helps you assess and manage active threats, situations, and terminations
- Outside consult to help your team address the specific challenges they’re facing in real
time
Threat Management
Team Training
- Trains your Threat Management Team as a team
- Detailed, threat-focused training on high-risk terminations
- Highly interactive, exercise-based training that builds in depth over time
The Safe Termination Program
All six solutions combined into one end-to-end program for a single discounted price.
- Termination Procedure
- Safe Termination eLearning
- Safe Termination Live Training
- Threat Management Team Retainer (unlimited 24/7 utilization)
- Threat Management Team Training
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