Risk Assessment of Workplace ViolenceGeorge E. Hargrave PhD
2. Biological Biological hazards associated with working with animals, people, or infectious plant materials. Most at-risk workers include those who work inschools, daycare facilities, colleges and universities, hospitals, laboratories,emergency response, nursing homes, and outdoor occupations. Here are ...
Applying an ethnographic generic template to the research would risk doing violence to how Ireported these experiences, and instead I chose to“craft”a piece of research that was moresuited to developing a vivid picture of the phenomenon under study. In trying to represent thephenomenon, I had...
Stuff reports that Z Energy frontline workers are exposed to violence, verbal abuse and racism on a daily basis. An operator of 17 Z service stations in Auckland said some of the antisocial behaviour arose when staff intervened to prevent theft but that often it came “out of the blue” and...
Workplace violence (WV) is a common risk in nursing [1]. Although numerous studies have shown that it produces serious effects on the physical and mental health of the victims [2,3,4,5], interferes with their ability to work [6], and consequently reduces the quality of care, this pheno...
Sexual harassment in the workplace (hereafter SHW) has been officially recognized since the 1970s as a form of violence to be prevented, and several studies have been conducted on it since then (see, e.g., [1,2]). Fitzgerald et al. [3] define this phenomenon as unsolicited and unwante...
Examples include: traffic and recreational vehicle crashes, pedestrian injuries, suicide, violence in the home, in bars and other settings, unplanned and/or unprotected sex, fire-related injuries, drowning, alcohol poison- ing and complications from alcohol/drug interactions. Chronic problems are most...
Since workplace risk assessment frequently involves the potential of targeted violence, the procedures are discussed within the U.S. Secret Service framework for analyzing targeted violence.doi:10.1300/J177v01n02_01George E. HargraveTaylor & Francis GroupJournal of Threat Assessment...
Gender, sexual harassment, workplace violence, and risk assessment: Convergence around psychiatric staff's perceptions of personal safety. Aggress Violent Beh 2002;7: 271-291.Hatch-Maillette MA, Scalora MJ. Gender, sexual harassment, workplace violence, and risk assessment: convergence around ...
(2013). Workplace Assessment of Targeted Violence Risk: The Development and Reliability of the WAVR-21. Journal of Forensic Science, 58(5): 1353-1358. doi: 10.1111/1556-4029.12196Meloy, J. R., White, S. G., & Hart, S. (2013). Workplace assessment of targeted violence risk: The ...