Security Vulnerability Assessments for North-East Businesses

Security Vulnerability Assessments for North-East Businesses

The Security Vulnerability Assessments we offer to businesses and organisations around Newcastle upon Tyne, North Shields, Blyth, Whitley Bay, Tynemouth, Cramlington, Hexham, Prudhoe, Ryton, Blaydon on Tyne, Gateshead, Jarrow, Hebburn, Boldon, South Shields, Washington, Sunderland, Durham and the rest of the North East are designed with one very simple goal in mind:

To provide the business owner(s) with definitive proof and reassurance that the people they employ are not putting the company at risk in some capacity and that the measures they have implemented are a strong enough deterrent. Read more about Security Vulnerability Assessments for North-East Businesses

An Untrustworthy Employee – A Staff Disciplinary Case Study

An Untrustworthy Employee – A Staff Disciplinary Case Study

Our Newcastle city centre based client got in touch with us after having Surmount recommended to them by a previous organisation we’d worked with, checking us out online and liking what they saw. They brought us in to consult with regards to concerns they had regarding one of their staff.

The staff member had a sales role within the company that required them to travel the region and meet with selected prospective customers that had been cultivated by the company’s engagement team. The prerequisite of the job was that a certain amount of sales calls per day was expected. Read more about An Untrustworthy Employee – A Staff Disciplinary Case Study

ONE YEAR ON: A Fuel Thief Identified And Revisited.

ONE YEAR ON: A Fuel Thief Identified And Revisited.

We’re coming up to the one year anniversary of our big ‘first case’ that put us on the map as investigators of note within the North East. So we thought we’d share the case study, revised and updated, for celebration’s sake:

Late February last year, we were engaged by a client to investigate one of their members of staff who they believed was stealing fuel from the company’s industrial pumps at the rear of their site. Read more about ONE YEAR ON: A Fuel Thief Identified And Revisited.

Investigating “Long Term Sickness”

Investigating “Long Term Sickness”

We posted this recently on our social media pages and it drew such a positive response and an increase in enquiries into our services that we decided to move it over to give it its own space on the Surmount blog.

Last week we noticed a lot of negative feedback online but specifically on LinkedIn to a rather disreputable ‘investigation consultancy’ company and comments / posts that they made on the topic of investigating “long term sickness”. Here at Surmount, we wanted to step into the ring on what proved on LinkedIn to be a particularly contentious topic and show you where we stand.

Specifically where we stand as a company professionally, ethically and legally in the face of such ‘cowboys’ offering to “deal with” those “staff members off sick that are costing you money”. Read more about Investigating “Long Term Sickness”