Employees often choose to keep their workplace violence concerns private. The unspoken nature of these concerns can mislead employers, giving them a distorted view of the risks facing their workforce ...
A recent study from the Department of Nursing Science at the University of Eastern Finland published in the Journal of ...
A report from the Manitoba Federation of Labour shows workplace injuries caused from violence tripled between 2015 and last ...
Workplace and community violence in American hospitals not only inflicts pain and trauma on healthcare workers. It also drives costs higher for an already stretched hospital system. A recent research ...
The use of violence risk flags in medical records likely does not reduce workplace violence in the clinical care setting. There are major questions about appropriate use of violence alerts or flags, ...
The Retail Workplace Violence Protection Act became law in New York state as of June this year. Retail violence is increasing across the U.S., driven by shoplifting, frequent assaults and the growth ...
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 ...
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 ...
Workplace violence continues to be a primary concern for employers and a challenge to maintaining workplace safety. Still, it is unclear whether there will be further movement on regulation at the ...
California recently enacted the country's first state-mandated workplace violence prevention safety law for general industries. California's Workplace Violence Prevention law took effect on July 1, ...
With Quebec's new regulation on sexual violence set to take effect, employers shouldn’t underestimate what's required, say ...