By Emily Gurnon, The Pioneer Press It used to be a “lockdown” referred only to prisons. But when Wilson Gillespie hears the word, he thinks of his own elementary school. “A lockdown is if somebody suspicious comes up to our building, we pretend that we are not there,” said Wilson, 9, a fourth-grader at Horace [...]

By Matt Peterson, The Dallas Morning News School officials don’t take it lightly when a student brings a knife to campus. But when they draw no distinction between a Bowie and a bread knife, discipline can go awry. This year, schools throughout North Texas are implementing a new state law that ends such “zero tolerance” [...]

from, Today’s Facility Manager The recent death of Yale graduate student Annie Le and the subsequent arrest of lab technician Raymond J. Clark III — who is alleged to have murdered her — has thrust the topic of workplace violence back into the national headlines. While workplace violence prevention has typically focused on the role [...]

By Douglas Malan, Connecticut Law Tribune Tensions are running high in the office. In a bad economy, stress increases and people’s fuses get shorter. A heated conversation between co-workers escalates into a shouting match. One worker becomes enraged, berating the colleague. Is the person having a bad day? Is it a personality trait? A personal [...]

By Tracy Kennedy, The Register Citizen The murder of Yale University lab technician Annie Le has turned a spotlight on the nationwide problem of violence in the workplace. The national Occupational Safety and Health Administration reports some 2 million American workers are victims of workplace violence a year. From 1992 to 2006, 11,613 people were [...]

By Kathleen Megan, The Hartford Courant When Raymond Clark III was arrested in the death of Yale graduate student Annie Le, New Haven Police Chief James Lewis said that the case was not about urban crime or university crime, but about workplace violence. Whether Clark is guilty and, if so, why he might have attacked [...]