Workplace Violence Prevention

05.19.09

Workplace Violence often occurs suddenly and with devastating results. These acts are largely committed against individuals, sometimes randomly as in the Virginia Tech shootings or sometimes they are committed against specific targeted individuals. The individuals who commit these acts may be career criminals, disgruntled employees or may include individuals who are involved in a domestic dispute. Workplace Violence can also result in property crimes, including industrial espionage committed by those who may have a dispute with the targeted enterprise. In some cases, there may be the added intervening variable that these acts of workplace violence are being committed by individuals who are deranged, psychotic and/or chemically impaired....