Category: Articles, Education, Media, Medical & Healthcare, Resources for Attorneys, Resources for Experts, Safety What We Can Learn from the 1918 Pandemic TASA ID: 1056 The social impact of the Spanish Flu and Covid-19 are eerily similar. There are many things we can learn from the 1918 Pandemic’s impact on society, the economy and employee behaviors. Similar to Covid-19, businesses and schools were forced to close, social distancing was the new norm, economies took a terrible blow and production was slowed. One of the most important lessons we have learned from the Spanish Flu is that we cannot ease our guard too quickly. In the summer of 1918, we thought we had conquered the pandemic; however, it lasted through the spring of 1919 because we underestimated its resistance. Read more
Category: Articles, Communications, Education, Resources for Attorneys, Resources for Experts, Safety, School Safety/Violence, Security Part IV: Bullying, Harassment, Teasing & Hazing Lawrence J. Fennelly CPOI, CSSM and Marianna Perry, CPP, CPOI TASA ID: 10544 "Barbara Coloroso (2003), on page 13 in her book, The Bully, The Bullied and the Bystander, defines bullying as: "a conscious, willful, and deliberate hostile activity intended to harm, induce fear through the threat of further aggression, and create terror." Coloroso contends that four elements characterize all bullies, no matter what sex, age or job title: (1) an imbalance of power, in which the bully is bigger, stronger or more favorably situated than the victim; (2) the bully has an intent to harm, knowing he or she will inflict emotional or physical pain, and revels in the fact; (3) a threat of further aggression exists, in which the bully and victim both know that this act of aggression will not be the last; and (4) terror persists-the extreme, continuing agitation of the victim. The essence of bullying, according to Coloroso, is not anger but contempt. The bully sees the bullied as not worth respect or empathy. The bully is consummately arrogant." Read more
Category: Articles, Education, Resources for Attorneys, Resources for Experts, Safety, School Safety/Violence, Security In Loco Parentis Litigation: The Hot Stock du Jour TASA ID: 1646 What should school administrators immediately begin to do to protect their school districts’ treasuries from being drained dry by negligence lawsuits? Let’s take a page out of New York Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg’s "book." Mayor Bloomberg has put the New York City schools on notice by announcing his objective to ferret out and punish disruptive students in the public schools, particularly those in schools with high rates of criminal violence (in previous years thought of as normal), and hold the principals more accountable for reducing disciplinary problems within their schools. My advice is that school administrators should structure their discipline policies along Mayor Bloomberg’s "safety first" principles. Read more
Category: Articles, Business & Commerce, Communications, Education, Employment, Resources for Attorneys, Working With Experts THE CASE WHEN THE TABLES WERE TURNED TASA ID: 408 When I was recommended by my own attorney to one of his colleagues, I found myself in an awkward situation. It was awkward because I didn’t want to return any obligations which may have jeopardized my relationship with my counsel and which may require that I ‘find’ I disagreed with my suggested role as a consultant. Regardless, I was introduced to the attorney who represented the husband in a pending divorce case. Study of the situation revealed that there was an abundance of money involved, and the ‘departing’ wife wanted a large share of it all. The husband wanted to mitigate his obligations. Read more
Category: Articles, Education, Medical & Healthcare, Resources for Attorneys, Working With Experts Expert Nursing Certifications What Do All Those Letters Mean? TASA ID: 16893 What does expert nursing certification mean exactly? Have you ever wondered what those letters following RN stand for? Nursing certification can be defined as, “one of two processes in which a professional organization formally recognizes the competence of a nurse to practice a subspecialty of nursing.” (Mosby’s Medical Dictionary) Read more
