Workplace Violence: Risk Analysis, Prevention and Response

Description

Overview
This half-day workshop will focus on educating participants on the rates and types of crimes occurring in the workplace with a primary focus on workplace safety training for managing assaultive behavior. While it’s not 100% preventable, and in some cases even expected, workplace violence can be mitigated through environmental design, awareness, education and proactive, frequent training.

It’s important to know the business industry itself can undergo physical, emotional, and financial suffering when workplace violence occurs. Liability risks are associated with providing a safe work environment, so senior level administrators, business owners and employees are all encouraged to attend this workshop.

In this workshop, participants will learn about the four primary categories of workplace violence including:
• Acts of violence between employees
• Violent acts initiated from customers or clients
• Violent attacks from criminal perpetrators that have no legitimate relationship to the business or its employees (most common)
• Domestic violence that spills over into the workplace
In addition to a lecture format, participants will learn how to analyze the risks and respond to violence in the workplace through role playing, simulations, and drills.


Instructor: Lisa Briggs, Ph.D.
Lisa Briggs is a professor in the Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice at Western Carolina University (WCU). She is an author, consultant, researcher and speaker on topics related to safety issues associated with children and adults in the community and the workplace. Lisa is the author of several books and peer-reviewed journals about Criminal Justice and Criminology. She has a Bachelor’s Degree in Criminal Justice from WCU, a Master’s of Public Affairs from WCU, and a Master’s of Science, and a Doctorate of Philosophy with a concentration in Crime and Delinquency, and Inequality from North Carolina University.