Workplace Violence
OSHA requires employers provide a safe workplace, and some states require similar conditions
Workplace Violence
OSHA General Duty Clause
This duty is extended to the necessity of due diligence to ensure new hires do not pose a foreseeable risk
Each employer shall furnish to each of its employees & a place of employment free from recognized hazards causing or likely to cause death or serious physical harm to his employees
OSHA General Duty Clause
The best prevention of exposure to workplace violence?
A pre-employment background investigation program
OSHA General Duty Clause
What are the primary prevention strategies against insider threats such as theft, workplace violence, and substance abuse
Applicant screening & employee socialization
OSHA Workplace Violence Typology
Type 1: Strangers
No relationship exists between the perpetrator, the victim or target & the organization
OSHA Workplace Violence Typology
Type 2: Customers
A business relationship existed or exists between the perpetrator & the organization
OSHA Workplace Violence Typology
Type 3: Employees
The perpetrator had or has an employment relationship with the organization
OSHA Workplace Violence Typology
Type 4: Domestic Partners
The perpetrator is a former or current intimate party of an employee
Workplace Violence
The majority responsibility for establishing a workplace violence prevention & intervention program & conducting incident management will largely fall on which departments?
HR
Security
Legal Personnel
Workplace Violence
The long-term solution to each situation of potential violence lies where?
Understanding the emotional & mental state of the aggressor & diverting him from violence not solely in strengthening security measures
The best prevention of workplace violence…?
Early Intervention
Workplace violence needs assessment
Evaluate any specific risks of violence affecting the workplace & readiness to respond to them
Most distinctive & important elements of a violence risk assessment program
Behavioral Recognition
Notification
Assessment
Intervention by planned disruption
Simplest roles of the Incident Management Team (IMT)
It is essential that the IMT be empowered to commit company assets & personnel to resolve an incident
Workplace Violence
Three levels of assessment for known aggressors
One of the differences between behavioral investigative analysis (profiling) & violence risk assessment
Profiling is used to exclude people from an investigative pool of subjects so as to conserve investigative resources
Violence Risk assessment is focused on a particular individuals risk of committing a violent act
Behavioral Assessment is…
Information - Intensive
Workplace Violence
The ADA & related state laws do not offer protections to mentally-disordered employees who present what?
A “direct threat” of violence to the organization as legally defined
Emotion-based (the vast majority of aggressors)
Affective Violence
Workplace Violence
Unemotional (much more complex intervention process)
Psychopathic Violence
Workplace Violence
Top 5 risk factors for homicide resulting from an abusive relationship (as identified by the DOJ)
Has abuser ever forced the abused employee to have sex?
At a police agency’s request, the FBI’s NCAVC (National Center for the Analysis of Violent Crime) may agree to conduct a violence risk assessment and advise on what?
Possible intervention strategies, if the employee is assessed as presenting a serious risk of violence
Intervention & Resolution