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organization.” We have designed this site as a resource and look forward to continuing the abuse prevention conversation with you. Praesidium's Safety Equation® identifies eight organizational operations that provide opportunities to decrease the risk of abuse by employees, volunteers, or other program participants. Using current research and root-cause an*lyses of thousands of cases of abuse across a diverse range of organizations, Praesidium has identified best practices in each operation and created products and services that Click on the tiles above to read about each operation of the Safety Equation® Policies define the bandwidth of acceptable behavior in an organization, and offenders often violate policies in their interactions with clients. When employees can identify policy violations, they are able to interrupt and report them. Simply interrupting a policy violation can prevent a false allegation of abuse or put an offender on notice that the rules apply to everyone Screening and Selection Offenders must have access to clients before they can offend, so organizations should do everything possible to avoid giving access to someone who should not be in a position of trust. While criminal background checks are necessary, less than 5 percent of offenders have criminal records. Comprehensive screening and selection requires organizations to systematically discover and consider everything they can about applicants. Offenders often act in predictable ways and effective training can provide employees and volunteers with the information they need to identify high-risk patterns of behavior and high-risk program characteristics. Training must be specific, frequent, and useful and it must teach how offenders operate, how to recognize suspicious or inappropriate interactions or policy violations and suspected abuse, Monitoring and Supervision When employees and volunteers are adequately supervised, potential offenders are less likely to act on their impulses because they face detection. And when clients are adequately supervised, they too are