Product Description

There is nothing new about the fact that millions of Americans will be affected by workplace violence this year.

But why those incidents occur and what companies can do to prevent and mitigate them is different now than in years past.

No doubt new technology helps companies respond better today to incidents of violence. Proposed legislation focusing on bullying will soon expand harassment laws to cover all workers. Companies now know how to leverage violence prevention for business profitability.

Sadly, recent data also show that the events you feared a few years ago are no longer the ones you should worry about now.

This bestselling IOMA Research Report is written especially to help organizations learn about the latest developments in workplace violence prevention and to incorporate fresh solutions into a comprehensive program—from creating employee awareness to administering training, collecting data to hazard control, and more.

To better focus on the latest solutions, trends, and real-world success stories, this report breaks down workplace violence prevention into these parts:

Crucial elements of a successful workplace violence prevention program, including:
baseline program elements
security and personnel strategies that can aid in preventing all forms of violence
how to structure prevention to have an effective mechanism for reacting to fluctuations in risk and emerging threats.
Primary causes of workplace violence, trends in each, and details recommendations for prevention.
Factors that can make workplace violence more likely, alongside new advice for managing them and minimizing the threat they pose.
Legal issues, with a special focus on recent changes in the legal and regulatory environment and what it is on the horizon.
Costs of workplace violence in order for companies to justify violence prevention initiatives, as well as advice for extracting maximum value from violence prevention efforts.
Model policies and program checklists that companies can use to develop or improve select aspects of a prevention program or audit the adequacy of their current efforts.

You’ll find the latest data on workplace violence—as well asbenchmarks on how companies are addressing it—included throughout.

In addition, the report includes dozens of “From the Field” sidebars that describe current research and case studies to show the real consequences from program successes and failures.