The Nova Scotia department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Aquaculture has prepared a PowerPoint presentation to outline their plan for addressing the requirements of the new provincial workplace violence legislation in Nova Scotia.
The presentation covers;
normal risk assessment
identify the hazards
risk assessment
violence prevention plan
procedure for aftermath
information and training information and training
Download the presentation

By John Quinlan, Sioux City Journal
The Devil may wear Prada in the workplace, but her bully minions elsewhere could be sporting Armani, Ralph Lauren, hard hats or hospital scrubs. Such is the state of workplace bullying, an insidious problem in America that Dr. Gary Namie calls a “silent epidemic.”
Namie, director of the Workplace Bullying Institute [...]

By David Flaum, Scripps Newspaper Group
With the business he’s in — background screening and identity investigation — you’d expect Jim Davis to skulk around Memphis in a trench coat with a cigarette hanging from his mouth.
Truth to tell, Davis, the new chief executive officer of Verified Person Inc., is more the computer geek, comfortable in [...]

By NIKHIL SWAMINATHAN
By his own estimate, David Seda should be six months into a job as a route sales representative for Frito-Lay, on the brink of receiving a raise and recently installed in his own apartment.
Instead, the 22-year-old is unemployed and living in his father’s Bronx home – a victim of what he calls an [...]

from the WSIB
Violence can happen in any workplace. However, people whose jobs involve any of the following factors are at increased risk of workplace violence:
Contact with the public
Exchange of money
Delivery of passengers, goods, or services
Having a mobile workplace (such as a vehicle)
Working with unstable or volatile people
Working alone or in small numbers
Working late at night [...]

There are many stories of disgruntled workers returning to their former workplaces and killing people. Or at least threatening to do so.
In March 2007, Michael Hiner was fired from his job at Grand Caverns. Hiner returned later in the day to confront his ex-boss with a gun. In order to help explain how to handle [...]

By JENNIFER STEWART, TheChronicleHerald.ca
With every signature they get, Sarah and Margaret Densmore feel they’re that much closer to making Nova Scotia a safer place to work.
The Dartmouth women were out again Tuesday lobbying for higher labour standards that, among other things, would require employers to have a minimum of two workers on every shift.
“We don’t [...]

By MAGGIE TAIT – NZPA, New Zealand
A company is being hit with a $1 million bill because ACC says the shooting of an employee in its carpark was a workplace accident.
Joel Storey was left paralysed from the waist down after what was believed to have been a botched gang shooting in the carpark of Wairoa’s [...]

from the Center for Personal Protection and Safety
SPOKANE, Wash., Sept. 17, 2007 — Shots Fired!…the last thing one would ever expect to hear in a workplace or university. The odds of being involved in an “active shooter” situation are similar to being struck by lightning. But lightning does strike, and active shooter situations happen, and [...]

from CCH Human Resources Management
Studies suggest that a staggering percentage of U.S. corporations have done nothing to address the issue of workplace violence. Less than 20 percent of American corporations report having taken the relatively simple step of developing a workplace violence policy—a major under-reaction likely caused by the acceptance of faulty beliefs. For example, [...]