After studying the twenty-seven state guidelines and also new guidance from
OSHA on how to prevent workplace violence incidents,
Here are 5 tips of what areas to work on in your organization:
1. Redo Policies – Make sure you have a clear ‘no weapons’ policy and make
employees sign a pledge when they join the organization.
2. Dynamic Awareness Training - Make sure that EVERY employee attends
a training program about workplace violence issues, whether it’s 1 hour or
4 hours annually. But boring computer training is not enough.
3. Do a Baseline Violence Assessment - See where your organization
rates compared to other companies and see how closely you match to
new standards and guidelines on Workplace Violence issues.
4. Require Employees to Report Every Incident – Communicate to employees
that they are required to report EVERY incident, whether it is domestic
violence at work, Patient violence, or anything else. Be tough!
5. Use Incident Tracking - Work with both Security and HR to make sure
every incident is tracked for analysis, and all employees know where and how
to report incidents
About admin
Caroline R. Hamilton is an expert in security risk analysis and security risk assessment and is partnered with Risk Watch International, a Florida-based company specializing in security risk assessment software. She was a Charter member of the National Institute of Standards and Technology's Risk Management Model Builders Workshop, and the NSA's Network Rating Model workshop.
She has recently created a special program to decrease workplace violence in hospitals and has worked with more than fifty hospitals to reduce violence against healthcare workers in conjunction with the world’s largest hospitals. In 2010, she applied this model to a major hospital center in the UAE and expects to apply it in more than fifteen countries in 2011 because the increase in violence is not limited to the USA but extends to the middle east, to Asia and Europe.
Hamilton has created a flexible model of risk that includes more than twelve algorithms that can accurately predict and automatically recommend mitigative controls based on a set of five variables – including threat profiles. This model has been applied to easy to use software tools and is now available for financial institutions like banks and credit unions, the defense industrial base facilities, manufacturing plants, hospitals, nuclear power plants, electrical generating plants, cities, ships, and hospitals and healthcare organizations.
She is a member of the ASIS Physical Security Council, the ASIS Information Security Technology Council, the Security Risk Assessment Association (SARMA), Infragard and IAHSS, (International Association of Hospital Safety and Security).
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Great tips! This would give everyone an active participation. They will become more aware on what is happening with their environment. Immediate action can be done in case there some irregularities occur.