Protecting a workforce from workplace violence presents complicated challenges for employers. Workplace violence incidents can emanate from myriad sources: a stranger, a customer, patient, or a ...

The effects of workplace violence are profound, including physical and emotional suffering, destroyed careers and harm to companies and society. And it comes at a remarkable economic price. Although ...

The American Nurses Association reports that one in four nurses have experienced workplace violence. In the second quarter of 2022, more than 5,200 nurses were assaulted in provider settings ...

A comprehensive plan that the University has developed and implemented to prevent workplace violence. The plan includes procedures for reporting, investigating, and responding to incidents of ...

Everyday acts of workplace violence affect more than a million Americans each year. A federal study published last year found an annual average of 1.3 million nonfatal workplace violence incidents ...

California’s SB553, the nation’s first comprehensive and multi-industry workplace violence prevention law, has been in effect for almost a year. Many other states are following suit with their own ...

In the early 2000s, I was conducting a security assessment at a healthcare facility when I observed a telling moment in the waiting room. A mother, visibly stressed, had just learned from the ...

What’s behind an alarming rise in violent incidents in health care facilities Health care workers are five times as likely to experience workplace violence as other workers, according to government ...

At a time when indiscriminate violence permeates American life, it has become a mind-numbing staple that often leads the nation's 24/7 news cycle. Acts of fury inevitably spill into the workplace ...

“Violence is just part of the job. Every nurse and healthcare worker experiences it at some point.” Sentiments like this echo across American hospitals and healthcare facilities, capturing a ...

On October 25, 2021, a customer named Jacob Bergquist, with a history of violating the Boise Towne Square Mall’s firearms ban, opened fire at the mall. The shooting in the Idaho mall led to the deaths ...

Ivette Palomeque has endured plenty of threats as a registered nurse in Houston, but she’s still shaken by the memory of a family threatening to shoot her and her colleagues at a local hospital. The ...