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 ...

Protecting a workforce from workplace violence presents complicated challenges for employers. Workplace violence incidents can emanate from myriad sources: a stranger, a customer, patient, or a ...

California’s SB553, the nation’s first comprehensive and multi-industry workplace violence prevention law, has been in effect for almost a year. Many other states are following suit with their own ...

The prevalence of workplace violence appears to be increasing, with 30% of workers reporting they saw workplace violence happen to another employee, up from 25% in 2024, according to an Aug. 6 report ...

Cal/OSHA recently issued a revised draft of its general industry workplace violence prevention standard, offering the clearest indication yet of ...

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“Violence is just part of the job. Every nurse and healthcare worker experiences it at some point.” Sentiments like this echo across American hospitals and healthcare facilities, capturing a ...

Violence against health care workers is on the rise, with workers five times more likely to experience violence than other occupations. Factors contributing to the increase include pandemic-related ...

Early in her career, Rita Manfredi, MD, worked an emergency room shift. Two police officers brought in a female patient needing a psychological evaluation. Manfredi, who was 5 months pregnant at the ...

“I refuse to be singled out for mistreatment,” he told me. I was sitting in the backroom of a maximum-security facility that housed violent offenders, doing my best to understand where my client was ...

Instances of workplace violence, like verbal and physical threats or assaults, aren't new phenomena. However, the environment we're operating in today feels markedly different. High-profile incidents ...

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