Workplace Violence
Workplace violence is defined as any act of violence, against persons or property, threats, intimidation, harassment or other inappropriate disruptive behavior that causes fear for personal safety at the worksite. While many organizations believe they are immune to violent incidence in their work environment, many will find the statistics alarming and the actual likelihood of a violent event taking place on their premises a reality.
Workplace Violence in Any Environment
Each year, approximately 110,000 violent acts take place in employment settings. These events took place in every industry, including law enforcement, retail, health care and corporate. Many of these acts resulted in workplace homicides, assaults and major injury. While the majority of workplace violence results in non-fatal offenses—robbery, verbal attacks, intimidation, property vandalism and various forms of retaliation—their effects are wide spread across the workforce.
Today, everyone is susceptible to workplace violence and its effects, which is why SafetyArc.com offers a training course filled with information on how to identify, prevent and response to workplace violence. As a leading provider of safety training courses for companies in a variety of industries, SafetyArc.com understands the importance of workplace violence training. Our training offers the latest in preventative tactics and quality measures any organization can make to reduce the possibility of a violent event occurring in their workplace.
Preventing workplace violence must include everyone in the workplace. Everyone, from executive management to laborers, must understand what workplace violence is, how to identify potentially violent people and situations and how to respond to violence should it occur while they are at work. Just because your company has an employee handbook that includes a section on workplace violence doesn’t mean that every employee and manager possesses the knowledge and capabilities to appropriately respond to workplace violence. A training program to help them follow-up, or to provide additional guidelines, is important for any organization. Plus, this course may give your organization additional ideas to prevent workplace violence before it slips beneath the radar and invades your organization.
Workplace Violence Training
Workplace violence is generally covered by the organization when an employee is hired. Policies and procedures are shared usually within the first couple of days after an employee begins his/her employment. However, these guidelines are often forgotten or considered unimportant to the employee. To help your organization solidify the importance of workplace violence prevention, SafetyArc.com offers a compact, basic training course designed to inform your employees and support your organization’s policies and procedures. The training is delivered in an intuitive presentation, including audio, video, learning extras and assessments This workplace violence training course can be taken at work or at home, from any computer with an Internet connection. Click here to learn more about SafetyArc.com’s online Workplace Violence training course.