Whether it is dealing with robbery, aggressive people, employee theft, electronic crime, or credit card, financial and data fraud, every retailer can protect their profits through proactively ensuring they have the best protective strategies in place.
Retail Council of Canada offers retail-specific resources for loss prevention, operations, and IT/data professionals, HR executives, audit practitioners and privacy lawyers to learn best practices, share ideas and network.
Key Issues
Loss Prevention Advisory Committee Update – January 2024
RCC’s Loss Prevention Advisory Committee continues to work on the Strategic Objectives they identified as priorities for retail. This newsletter is a nationwide update and also shows how provincial committees are progressing from coast-to-coast.
Violence in stores
RCC is tirelessly searching for new solutions to prevent violence in Canada’s retail work environments, linking police services, government officials, and store employees to find an end to indiscriminate attacks on the country’s retail workforce.
Loss Prevention News
RCC Members Meet with Manitoba’s Economic Development Minister Moses →
Last Friday, RCC and its members convened with Hon. Jamie Moses, Manitoba’s Minister of…
Manitoba’s NDP Unveils First Budget with Health Care Focus →
The first budget of the Wab Kinew led NDP Manitoba government was released last week, and not…
Retail United in Defiance Against Crime – Key Takeaways from the 2024 Retail Secure Conference →
By Isabelle Godin, Regional Loss Prevention Business Partner, Giant Tiger Stores Limited, and…
Alberta Seeks Input on OHS Workplace Violence and Harassment Rules →
Alberta is inviting public feedback on proposed updates to its Occupational Health and Safety…
Loss Prevention Resources
RCC’s Retail CyberSecure Program →
Retail de-escalation training video produced by RCC, EPIC Risk →
Retail Safety Guidebook →
Gift Card Fraud →
Canadian Centre for Cyber Security – Alerts and Advisories →
De-escalation tips for retailers →
Actions to prevent workplace violence →
Best practices for creating a retail security strategy →
Best practices for crowd management →
Anti-Ransomware: How to protect your business →
Committees
Loss Prevention Advisory Council
The LP Advisory Committee is open to senior loss prevention personnel from RCC member companies. The objective of the committee is to provide a forum for Loss Prevention, Asset Protection and Risk Management leaders from across Canada to discuss challenges within the industry and collaborate on issues facing retailers. The Advisory Committee will identify trends, insights, and provide solutions regarding matters of risk within the areas of Loss Prevention and Risk Management to establish Key Objectives and core activities focused on providing solutions and sharing best practices.
The Committee has identified three critical issues/trends that are common to all retailers across Canada and have established the following Strategic Objectives for 2022:
- Increase of workplace violence, arson, and property crime
- Collaboration with Police, Justice, and government
- Organized Retail Crime
The committee convenes every two months through virtual meetings and during the annual LP Conference.
View the current list of LP Advisory Committee members.
Click here to join the LP Advisory Committee or learn more about the RCC LP activities.
About Isabelle Godin
Isabelle Godin is a 20+ years veteran in the world of Loss Prevention. Prior to joining the Loss Prevention community, Isabelle worked on the operations side of the business as store manager. Isabelle is Wicklander Zulawski trained in investigative interview and interrogation techniques.