Workplace Violence Is On The Rise…

• According to Pinkerton’s Seventh Annual Survey of Fortune 1000 corporate security professionals, workplace violence is the top security concern to the largest U.S. corporations. Pinkerton, the nation’s largest security services company, reported that violence in the workplace costs employers 36 $billion annually and result in three deaths daily plus thousands of injuries each year. In addition, concerns about Internet and network security jumped to second in 2000 from seventh in 1999.

• Homicide is the No. 2 cause of fatal workplace injury in the U.S. – and the leading cause of work-related death for women.

• About 80 percent of women murdered at work are victim of someone other than their current or ex-spouses or partners.

• More than a quarter of a million women are beaten, raped or violently assaulted on the job annually.

• In the past decade the number of individuals who have killed their supervisors has doubled.

• Nearly two million people are physically or verbally assaulted on the job every year.

• Workplace violence is the top security threat to fortune 1000 companies.

 

Do You Know The RIGHT Thing To Do In These Situations?

• Two co-workers are in a shouting match that sounds like it could come to blows

• You hear screams coming from down the hall, but do not know what the situation is

• An irate customer on the phone becomes verbally abusive and threatens retribution

• A person who appears mentally unbalanced is hanging around your organization’s lobby

• A disgruntled employee threatens you after you have given him a poor performance review

• You answer a phone call in your department and a voice tells you that there is a bomb in your building

• An employee’s ex-husband, who is rumored to be violent, shows up drunk and starts an argument with her

• A man with a gun jumps out of a car near yours in the company parking lot and tries to force you into his car

• You are working after-hours and hear voices in an area of the building that should have been deserted hours ago

• Someone comes into your building and suddenly pulls a knife on you demanding that you hand over the cash – and you don’t handle cash