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Stranger Rape Course Most Popular with Women
June 2, 2010 rape, women's self-defense, workplace violence » Add the first comment.
Copy Cats Coming out After Virginia Tech
April 27, 2007 shooting, workplace violence » Add the first comment.
Keep your guard up at work. Following highly publicized events, there is always an increase in copy cat threats. It’s already started after Virginia Tech — an employee at SeaWorld in Orlando threatened to go on a shooting rampage and then, after he was fired, threatened to come back to blow up the park. [...] Read more »
Workplace Murders Most Precipitated by Robbery
October 9, 2006 workplace violence » Add the first comment.
The National Council on Compensation Insurance reports that about 75 percent of all murders in the workplace occur during the commission of a robbery. While we have become somewhat used to the headline-grabbing, spectacular scene of the disgruntled employee entering his workplace and murdering coworkers, the reality is that your life is much more exposed [...] Read more »
ASIS Publishes Workplace Violence Guide
March 2, 2006 workplace violence » Add the first comment.
Alexandria, VA (March 1, 2006) – ASIS International (ASIS)has published the final version of its Workplace Violence Prevention and Response Guideline. The guideline is designed to help organizations understand the scope and far-reaching consequences of the problem that affects an estimated 1.7 million employees directly and millions more indirectly each year, and to serve as [...] Read more »
Workerplace murders by women still rare
February 1, 2006 workplace violence » Add the first comment.
Monday night’s shooting spree by ex-postal worker Jennifer Sanmarco in California may be the deadliest ever for a workplace shooting perpetrated by a woman. However, these types of workplace murders done by females are fairly uncommon. According to Northeastern University criminologist James Alan Fox, women were responsible for just 7 percent of 450 workplace shootings [...] Read more »
Postal Shootings Offer Self-Defense Lessons
January 31, 2006 self-defense, shooting, workplace violence » Add the first comment.
There are some lessons to be learned from yesterday’s shooting rampage by an ex-postal worker who opened fire at a mail processing plant, killing six people and critically wounding another before committing suicide. 1. Know what to do when gunfire erupts! “I heard something that sounded like a pop, and then I heard a [...] Read more »
Workplace violence pervasive
January 25, 2006 workplace violence » Add the first comment.
According to statistics provided to ASIS from a special report done by the U.S. Department of Justice (covering the years 1993-1999), workplace violence affects an estimated 1.7 million employees directly and millions more indirectly each year.
Heed the Warnings of Violent Co-Workers
November 4, 2005 workplace violence » Add the first comment.
One of your employees or fellow co-workers has a temper problem and is known for yelling, getting upset, disagreeing with his supervisors, and getting into fights. No big deal right? Just stay out of his way and maybe things will go okay. Well, not so for Robert Sisia, a supervisor in a restaurant supply [...] Read more »
Employee Theft vs. Shoplifters, Guess Which is a Bigger Threat to Your Business?
October 13, 2005 workplace violence » Add the first comment.
Ernst & Young has discovered that 66% of firms have been victims of corporate theft. Surprisingly, 55% of the perpetrators in these cases turn out to be management employees. The Retail Council of Canada reports that internal theft is the leading cause of retail losses, not external theft. The National Retail Federation Loss Prevention [...] Read more »