Nater Associates Ltd. provides highly tailored, cost effective, practical, robust, agile, proactive (RAP) Workplace Violence Prevention and Workplace Security Consulting Services through a personalized employee-inclusive approach.
The Prevention Framework
The firm’s proprietary methodology focuses on the following core components to ensure an effective workplace violence prevention approach. The services emphasize leadership engagement, employee involvement, integrated planning, and tailored strategies built around proprietary models.
Core Methodology Consulting Framework
- Executive Information Briefing (EIB): The process begins with the foundational exploratory fact-finding consultation to understand organizational needs.
- Organizational System Model (OSM): The process that captures an organizational approach to define wants, needs and capabilities with key personnel.
- Violence Interdiction Model (VIM): The prevention strategy that influences outcome and builds buy-in by utilizing the LIC3E process (Leadership, Integration, Collaboration, Coordination, Communication and Execution through quality Training and Technology to drive the robust, agile proactive security posture.
- Assessment Strategy: Applies a unique consultative methodology featuring a “Reverse OSHA top-down” assessment philosophy that strongly emphasizes employee involvement that includes a customized Likert-based Workplace Violence Prevention Security Vulnerability Assessment. By treating workers as critical partners in risk assessment, the framework helps close vulnerabilities while simultaneously promoting workforce trust, confidence, and safety.
Needs Maximization: Emphasizes evaluating whether the value of meeting the needs outweighs the costs and prioritizing organizational unity (“us” over “them”).
“I recommend without any hesitation Felix P. Nater for all your Security Consultant requirements. Mr. Felix Nater has high integrity, expert detailed knowledge, and provides great results time and time again. Mr. Felix Nater is truly the best in the industry!” Victor Hayghe, Affinity Health Plan
Nater Associates Ltd. provides a comprehensive suite of workplace violence prevention and workplace security consulting services, designed primarily for small & midsize manufacturing, processing, production, utility and public housing organizations led by Felix Nater, CSC – retired U.S. Postal Inspector with decades of federal law enforcement and security consulting experiences. Felix Nater is also a retired U. S. Army Reserves Sergeant Major. Nater Associates Ltd. uses structural frameworks like Organization Support Model (OSM), Violence Interdiction Methodology (VIM) and the Robust, Agile, Proactive (RAP) framework and a Likert-based Workplace Violence Prevention Security Vulnerability Assessment to help manage workplace violence as an enterprise-wide risk.
The Unique Core Consulting Services & Products Offered Include:
- Workplace Violence Prevention Consulting: Provides organizations strategic consultation, guidance, support and evaluates existing workplace violence prevention posture using a Likert-based assessment tool to identify critical risk factors and mitigate hostile intruder threats. The ultimate goal is fostering a Robust, Agile, Proactive (RAP) prevention mindset and security readiness.


- Workplace Security Consulting Services: Evaluates existing security posture, management practices and technology to resolve capability gaps and vulnerabilities in building a highly coordinated, efficient, and collaborative workplace violence prevention and workplace security strategy that ensures emergency action plans are seamlessly integrated.
- Situational Awareness and Workplace Violence Prevention Training: Delivers tailored, workforce-specific learning content top down to help employees recognize and respond to potential threats, enhance security, mitigate risk, fostering trust and a culture of safety through employee engagement.
- Incident Assessment and Crisis Management Services: Offers high-level technical support, independent third-party reviews of management investigations and post-incident assessments.
- Coaching, Facilitation and Advisory Services: Provides Retainer-based, on-demand confidential, onsite and telephonic guidance to leadership teams to manage crisis response, business continuity, and business-wide emergency action plans.
- Program Management Support Services. Delivers generalized, retainer-based consulting to oversee the implementation of prioritized workplace violence prevention recommendations, personnel security measures, training, and technology needs.
WE DO THIS BY…
- Assessing and evaluating workplace violence prevention, physical security, visitor management, active shooters, suicidal violence prevention, domestic violence, bomb or arson threats, armed robbery, and suspicious mail or packages
- Assessing and evaluating the worksite specific environments to identify at risk situations.
- Identifying threats to worker safety and recommend changes or improvements to reduce risk to workers, and others.
- Assisting implement changes or improvements to increase and enhance workplace security posture.
- Reviewing existing workplace violence prevention, security, threat, crisis, and emergency preparedness in support of an active shooter incident or other situation.
- Training all employees on relative aspects of workplace violence, workplace violence prevention, violence response (active shooter) and situational awareness.
- Aiding in conducting workplace violence incident and litigation support in Arbitration, EEO and other administrative proceedings.
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