Recommendation for Security Managers Government agencies, banks, shopping malls, restaurants, law firms, airlines, schools, and other organizations all share an increasingly more common social phenomenon. All of these types of workplaces and many others suffer from being the sites of workplace violence. Both employees in these workplaces and the general public who frequents them are placed at risk when workplace violence occurs.
Approximately 1400 people are killed on the job every year in the U.S. (Brenner and Summerfield 1996). Organizations are responsible for providing employees with a safe workplace free of violence. In depth pre-employment screening procedures, workplace violence awareness training, and workplac