{"id":1850,"date":"2019-12-19T19:35:25","date_gmt":"2019-12-19T19:35:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.besafe.net\/?p=1850"},"modified":"2023-06-07T08:35:15","modified_gmt":"2023-06-07T08:35:15","slug":"workplace-violence-awareness-best-practices-training-action-plan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.besafe.net\/news\/workplace-violence-awareness-best-practices-training-action-plan\/","title":{"rendered":"Workplace Violence Awareness, Best Practices and Action Plan"},"content":{"rendered":"

Workplace violence is a real problem in the United States. The National Safety Council (NSC)<\/a> reports that assaults resulted in 18,400 injuries and 458 fatalities<\/strong> in 2017 (the most recent year with available data). The National Sexual Violence Resource Center (NSVRC)<\/a> estimates rape and sexual assault account for 2.3% of all nonfatal workplace violence, with 80% of those victims being female<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Some courts even believe employees have a duty to report the crimes of their coworker<\/a>s<\/u>, even when they don\u2019t occur in the workplace. The Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM)<\/a> found 75% of people are comfortable working or doing business with someone who has a nonviolent criminal record. That number drops to 33% for criminals with a violent past.<\/p>\n

It may be due to the fact that homicides account for approximately 10% of workplace fatalities<\/strong>, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics<\/a>. Three of the top 10 most deadly workplace shootings in U.S. history<\/a> occurred in the past five years.<\/p>\n

This included the 2015 San Bernardino mass shooting<\/a> that claimed the lives of 14 and injured 21 and the 2019 mass shootings in Virginia Beach and El Paso. The Virginia Beach municipal building shooting<\/a> murdered 12 and injured 4, while the El Paso Walmart shooting<\/a> killed 9 and injured 27.<\/p>\n

Exposure to any violence, from a simple fisticuff<\/span> fist-fight to a mass shooting, has detrimental effects on the overall health of society. This report will explore these effects and the causes of workplace violence, along with presenting best practices to prevent it.<\/p>\n

Take This Job and Shove It!<\/span><\/h2>\n

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Job dissatisfaction is nothing new \u2013 in fact, only 51% of people<\/a> are satisfied with their jobs these days, and that\u2019s an upswing.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s no surprise that anti-work sentiment creeps its way into movies, TV shows, books and other outlets within pop culture.<\/p>\n

Unfortunately, some people find less benign ways to release their pent-up frustration with the workplace.<\/p>\n

The term \u201cgoing postal<\/a>\u201d is derived from a series of shootings in the 1980s that culminated in the 1986 Edmond post office shooting. Mail carrier, Patrick Sherrill, was unhappy about his working conditions and had just been reprimanded by management.<\/p>\n

Sherrill returned the next morning on a shooting spree that killed 15 people (including Sherril himself) and injured six. It caused a media frenzy that led to then-FBI Director Robert Mueller gathering experts from around the country to assess the situation in 2004<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The FBI\u2019s committee analyzed over 1.7 million violent crimes reported in the workplace<\/strong> between 1993 and 1999 to determine the breakdown. As sensationalized as the media coverage gets, mass killings only account for %0.1 of all violence<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Simple assault accounts for 75.2%, and aggravated assault accounts for 18.6%. Workplace violence falls into four categories, according to the report:<\/p>\n