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NIOSH offers free on-line violence prevention training for nurses

A NIOSH Science Blog post

August 15, 2013

In 2012, the Healthcare and Social Assistance (HCSA) sector was amongst the largest industry sectors in the U.S. employing an estimated 19.4 million workers (13.5% of the total workforce)[1]. On average, over the last decade, U.S. healthcare workers have accounted for two-thirds of the nonfatal workplace violence injuries in all industries involving days away from work [2].

Murder of group home worker leads to companywide settlement

"This resolution cannot restore the life that was taken”

August 14, 2013

A recent agreement between North Suffolk Mental Health Association, Inc. and the U.S. Department of Labor is intended to safeguard employees against the type of workplace violence that claimed the life of a counselor at a group home in 2011.

How to stop a bad guy (gently)

Safeway suspended an employee who stopped an assault

Dan Markiewicz MS, CIH, CSP, RMP

July 9, 2013

In May, 2012 Safeway meat counter employee, Ryan Young, stopped a man from assaulting a pregnant store customer.

An act of work-related violence that “could have been prevented”

Patient with violent past kills caseworker

June 17, 2013

A young caseworker was stabbed to death with a butcher knife last December by a patient she was meeting with for a required face-to-face hospitalization risk assessment.

How should you respond to an active shooter?

The Department of Homeland Security developed a website that provides all necessary training materials to deal with an active shooter

Dan Markiewicz MS, CIH, CSP, RMP

June 7, 2013

Where and when the next mass shooting event will occur cannot be known, but thinking it can’t be your workplace is naïve.

Run, Hide, Fight: Responding to an active shooter

Bo Mitchell

April 17, 2013

Since Sandy Hook, I get asked daily about "RUN, HIDE, FIGHT," the new response to an active shooter on a campus or in a workplace.

Workplace violence: Run, hide or fight

October 10, 2012

The city of Houston's public service announcement video is a dramatic enactment of a shooting in a large office building, and uses the dramatization to illustrate the details of the three main strategies.

Workplace violence prevention subject of new ANSI stanard

October 28, 2011

On October 20, two American National Standards Institute (ANSI) members and accredited standards developers, ASIS International and the Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM)announced the release of ASIS/SHRM WVP.1-2011, "Workplace Violence Prevention and Intervention."