By Lucy Blatter, amNewYork Though they garner lots of media attention, workplace homicides like that of Yale University student Annie Le last fall are extremely rare. More often, workplace violence comes in the form of assaults, threats and stalking. And it’s an issue of increasing importance. According to Paul Viollis, CEO of Risk Control Strategies, [...]

By Matt Horton, live5news.com When the term “going postal” was first coined in the 1980s, it was fairly simple to understand: 40 percent of violent acts in the workplace were committed by those who were employed by their local post office. However, a lot has changed since the 1980s. “You have a better chance of [...]

By Kerri Panchuk, Dallas Business Journal If the case of a disgruntled financial services client who opened fire against his financial advisers in North Dallas can teach us anything, it’s that workplaces should not ignore threats or unusual behavior exhibited by employees and clients. That’s the point FBI educator and workplace violence expert Larry Barton [...]

By Steve Adams, The Patriot Ledger Economic woes have recently raised the threat levels of deadly workplace violence despite employers’ efforts to adopt early warning systems. Workplace killings have declined in recent years, according to federal government data, and many large companies have adopted extensive programs to identify employee threats. But recent high-profile incidents underscore [...]

By Tammy Joyner, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution While last week’s deadly shooting at a Kennesaw truck rental facility puts a public face on workplace violence, security and crisis management experts say there are many more workplace problems that fly under the radar. They’re continually being called on to handle toxic boss-employee relationships, overwhelmed workers, verbal threats, [...]

By Mark Guarino, csmonitor.com The shooting at ABB Group in St. Louis Thursday that ended with four people dead, including the shooter, raises the prospect that the recession could be a strong contributor to workplace violence. The Associated Press reports that the shooter, Timothy Hendron, was among several plant employees suing the company and its [...]

By Matt Snyders, CityPages.com “Goddamn it!” says the founder and CEO of Avalon Security. He emerges from his office in Brooklyn Park wearing black pinstriped pants, matching vest, and an improbably broad grin. “I thought those guys would never hang up!” Dan Seman is a busy man these days. Since 1982, he and his 30-plus [...]

By Sarah Boesveld, The Globe and Mail A recent “minor” workplace tiff in a Toronto sushi restaurant left one employee dead. Clashes in a Yale University laboratory led to the murder of a young graduate student in September, her body stuffed in a basement utility space. These are extreme cases, but they cast a grim [...]

By Vivek Naik, TMCnet.com Workplace stress, one recent report said, is a $ 300 billion profit killer across all industries such as IT, telecommunications, service providers, financial segments and satellite manufacturers. The report said that in 1992, the United Nations called stress the “20th century epidemic,” and four years later, a survey by the World [...]