Groups Partner on Workplace Violence Prevention Consensus Standard

Workplace violence is a challenging security and safety concerns today. To help companies and organizations respond to and become better prepared for such challenges, ASIS International and Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM), have partnered on ASIS/SHRM WVP.1-2011, Workplace Violence Prevention and Intervention. The standard establishes policies, processes and protocols that organizations can adopt to identify and prevent threatening behavior and violence affecting the workplace, and to better address and resolve threats and violence that have occurred. “Practitioners can use the standard to evaluate whether their organization is taking sufficient steps to protect employees from a wide range of problematic behaviors that can compromise workplace safety,” says ASIS’s Rebecca Speer. “It helps to answer the tough questions: ‘Are we doing enough?’ ‘Are we doing the right things?’”

OSHA has posted workplace violence prevention resources here and NIOSH offers resources here. Read a 2004 white paper from ASSE here.