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Case Law - Shakur Decision
While flawed, the Shakur decision should serve as a reminder to...
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Robert R. (Bob)
First Reference Talks » Blog Archive » Conducting a workplace violence risk assessment: six common pitfalls blog.firstreference.com
Despite the fact that a significant majority of Canadian organizations are legally obligated to conduct workplace violence risk assessments, it ...
Johnny
A new NIOSH study finds that nearly one-quarter of working women who are the victims of workplace homicide are killed by an intimate partner.
Johnny
Clerk charged with shooting assaulting customer
April 30th, 2012 Durham, NC Convenience Store
A man who a history of causing problems at a local store, came in stating that he had a ...
A Durham store clerk who shot a customer in the leg last week said Friday that he was only protecting himself after the customer threatened to kill him.
Johnny
Sexual Violence in the Workplace
okay, not a case to review but it is sexual assault awareness month. just wanted to put some thoughts down.
Sexual Violence in the ...
Blog epanicbutton.com
Relevant, timely discussions, news, and incident reports about workplace safety and security, and violence prevention in the workplace.
Tara
ASIS Toronto Women in Security Speaker Event – New Date and Location! – Thursday, May 24, 5:30-9:30 PM at the North York Civic Centre -...
Event Theme: Networking, Training and Mentoring for success.
Keynote speaker: Susan Munn, CPP - Director of Security and Facilities, ...
Robert R. (Bob)
Bill Whitmore's book "Potential: Workplace Violence Prevention and Your Organizational Success"
"If your employees don't feel safe and secure, they are not going to do the best job for you," Whitmore said. "Good leadership is ...
Leadership’s role in preventing workplace violence securityinfowatch.com
AlliedBarton President and CEO Bill Whitmore shares insights in webinar
Johnny
April 11th, Edmonton Canada Assault at Group Home
An employee was assaulted by a resident and one other at a teen, group home. She went to the hospital with injuries but was released ...
Officials investigating alleged assault at Wetaskiwin group home edmontonjournal.com
Both police and Occupational Health and Safety are investigating after a worker at a Wetaskiwin group home was assaulted last week.
Robert R. (Bob)
Business Security & Risk Management: 7 Steps to Prevent Workplace Violence infortal-security.blogspot.ca
Employers and employees frequently want to know what basic steps they can incorporate in their daily routine to help prevent workplace violence. The Department of Justice reports more than 2 million incidents of violence in the...
Robert R. (Bob)
Canadian Safety Reporter - Article - WorkSafeBC introduces tool kit to reduce the risk of domestic violence entering the workplace safety-reporter.com
Free kit available online
Robert R. (Bob)
How should we go about reviewing our violence-prevention program? businessmanagementdaily.com
Q. We’re re-examining our workplace violence-prevention strategies. What guidance is available to employers? A. For more than 15 years, workplace violence has been one of the top four causes of death at work. In response, OSHA...
Robert R. (Bob)
Privacy Decision
A decision that may cause concern to Ontario municipalities.
In a decision that may cause concern to Ontario municipalities, Ontario's privacy commissioner has ordered the City of Woodstock to turn over, to a...
Johnny
Don't know how to classify this one..
February 5th, 2012 Onawa, Iowa Shop
Business owner convinces employee to shoot him in order to gain the sympathy of his estranged ...
Shooting a ploy to win back wife omaha.com
Authorities say a trucking owner arranged to have one of his employees shoot him to gain his estranged wife's sympathy.
Johnny
March 6th, 2012 Jacksonville FL Episcopal High School Fired Teacher kills Dean
In an article put out by the school's marketing dir, they state the precautions that they took prior to the event.
What struck me was ...
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Johnny
Impact of stress - the "desperate" aggressor
in this situation, we have a worker who allegedly was under pressure, was getting a bad review and given extra duties. Of course, we ...
NEW BRITAIN, Conn. (AP) - A hospital maintenance worker charged with shooting two supervisors had been assigned extra duties at work and was under a lot of pressure, his son said Thursday. - MSN...
Robert R. (Bob)
Bill Whitmore's book "Potential: Workplace Violence Prevention and Your Organizational Success"
The full book is now available on Amazon.
Bill Whitmore: Engaged Leadership's Role in Workplace Violence Prevention huffingtonpost.com
Why does workplace violence rear its ugly head? Are we needlessly worried about potential violence at work or do we have genuine reason to be...
Johnny
Patient Assaults Staff
February 13th, 2012 CA Saddleback Memorial Medical Center
A patient claims that she was fondled and injected with an unknown ...
Hospital patient arrested after fight with staff ocregister.com
A patient at Saddleback Memorial Medical Center San Clemente reportedly fought with staff members after saying a nurse had touched her breast and injected an unknown and unprescribed fluid into her arm. The patient reportedly had ea
Johnny
Robert R. (Bob)
An Ontario labour arbitrator has decided that a hospital’s lawyer’s investigation report into a bullying/harassment complaint was not privileged, so that the union was entitled to a copy.
Johnny
violence in local government
just noticed a few incidents that occurred at local government and thought I would post in discussion.
sorry if it is repeat of earlier ...
New Hanover County Commissioner Berger arrested, ordered to have mental health evaluation starnewsonline.com
More than an hour had passed and New Hanover County Commissioner Brian Berger still hadn't shown up in court Friday morning to face a charge of violating a protection order.
Johnny
Man found not guilty of WPV, claims self defense from bully boss
Even though the knocked out his boss's teeth, he was found not guilty of assault but was simply defending himself. The defense brought ...
Montco man not guilty in workplace fight - phillyBurbs.com : North Penn: john jones, acquitted, assault, workplace, montgomery township phillyburbs.com
A Whitpain man this week was acquitted on all charges stemming from a workplace altercation that took place last year in Montgomery Township.
