New Bankers Training Program Provides Crucial Information on Robberies; Employees Learn Important Tips on Surviving a Holdup.DALLAS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aug. 2, 1999-- PRIMEDIA Workplace Learning, a subsidiary of PRIMEDIA Inc. (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange :PRM PRM Partner Relationship Management PRM Parameter PRM Bureau of Population, Refugees and Migration (US State Department) PRM Partidul Romania Mare (Romania Mare Party) PRM Professional Risk Manager ) and Bankers Training & Consulting Company Noun 1. consulting company - a firm of experts providing professional advice to an organization for a fee consulting firm business firm, firm, house - the members of a business organization that owns or operates one or more establishments; "he worked for a (BTCC BTCC British Touring Car Championship BTCC Biological Threat Characterization Center (US DHS) BTCC Brooktree Closed Caption ), the nation's leading producer of computer-based and video training programs for financial institutions, announce the release of "Holdup II: Play This One For Safety," a video-training course on surviving a holdup. The program offers a new look at what to do before, during, and after a robbery, including how to safeguard personnel and customers and how to handle the media. "It was very important to us, that the content be relevant and realistic," said Mary Corrigan, program manager of BTCC. "A lot of effort went into this training program. We researched banks and past victims; we even used someone from the FBI as a consultant to help make this program the most up-to-date and the most accurate training available on the subject." A study published in the February 1999 Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, reports that employees who have experienced a bank robbery The examples and perspective in this article or section may not represent a worldwide view of the subject. Please [ improve this article] or discuss the issue on the talk page. Bank robbery is the crime of robbing a bank. exhibit negative changes in physical and mental health and job performance. The study evaluated 141 bank employees at 42 different bank branches. All of the employees suffered some type of negative impact from a robbery experience, ranging from increased stress, to reduced productivity at work, to problems with work or personal relationships. "No one can predict when a robber is going to strike. But what we can do is give financial institutions the tools they need to prepare themselves," continued Corrigan. The training program's "real-life" scenarios bring viewers directly into a hold-up situation and help generate discussion on how to properly handle each element of a bank robbery. The re-enactments were actually described by one viewer as being "too real" for those who have been in a holdup situation before. BTCC (www.btcc.com) is dedicated to providing financial institutions with high-quality, cost-effective cost-effective, n the minimal expenditure of dollars, time, and other elements necessary to achieve the health care result deemed necessary and appropriate. training solutions. With nearly 300 training programs, BTCC offers the largest selection of computer-based, video and Intranet training products available, covering topics from regulatory compliance and teller TELLER. An officer in a bank or other institution. He is said to take that name from tallier, or one who kept a tally, because it is his duty to keep the accounts between the bank or other institution and its customers, or to make their accounts tally. training to management development and customer service. PRIMEDIA Workplace Learning (www.pwpl.com) provides organizations with products that meet the education, information and training needs of a global workforce. The company offers flexible, customized distance learning solutions to professionals in a myriad Myriad is a classical Greek name for the number 104 = 10 000. In modern English the word refers to an unspecified large quantity. The term myriad is a progression in the commonly used system of describing numbers using tens and hundreds. of markets by combining creative content development and production expertise with a variety of delivery platforms. |
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