How do the RAM Members vary in their Approaches?
In the past decades organizations have been experiencing a series of seemingly endless high profile shootings and this has formed them to implement various programs and also teams for assessing threats by assembling them in various types. These programs employ strategies on how to have access control, rapid response, detection, trainings in management of conflicts as well as mass notifications. The teams evaluate and investigate behaviors considered dangerous fulfilling their use of threat assessment. However, the strategies lack the emphasis though they are essential in forming comprehensive approaches to reducing these vulnerabilities and detecting signs and creating intervention programs (Borum, R., Fein, R., Vossekuil, B., & Berglund, J., 1999)..
One of the approaches to risk assessment and management is offering employees a proactive, planned and coordinated strategy of handling behaviors before violence occurs. They try to identify as well as address problems before they happen. This is done by seeking out strategies for intervention that minimize harm and danger posed to employees. Secondly, they also try to reduce the vulnerabilities by putting in place policies and procedures that are posing threat. Lastly, they also try to build a successful team set aside purposely for risk assessment and management equipped with a statement of mission, commitment from superiors, protocols for operation, resources both financial and material, members who are focused and committed, a role model and organizational offering minimal resistance (Borum, R., Fein, R., Vossekuil, B., & Berglund, J., 1999).
In conclusion there are various approaches that are employed by members of a ram team. First a proactive approach to identification of vulnerabilities that present themselves through regular meetings and discussing presented ones. Secondly, an effort to coordinate intervention is done through programs that seek to intervene with minimal danger and harm being the expected result. Lastly, a reduction of vulnerabilities is done to try and limit or try and eliminate them in a planned manner through policies and behavior assessment.
Borum, R., Fein, R., Vossekuil, B., & Berglund, J. (1999) Threat Assessment: Defining an Approach for Evaluating Risk of Targeted Violence. Behavioral Sciences and the Law.
