PART IV Case Studies and Practice Exercises

99 Prevention, Intervention, and RecoveryPART IVCase Studies andPractice ExercisesThese case Studies have been prepared to provide specific risk and threatfactors for examination and to create useful learning tools. They are intendedto provide assistance to organization planners as they develop workplaceviolence prevention programs and assess their readiness to handle these typesof situations. The characters in the case Studies are fictional and have beencreated for educational purposes. No reference to any individual, living ordead, is intended or should be Violence100101 Prevention, Intervention, and RecoveryThe call comes s being stalked two employees get into a shovingmatch a woman flees a violently abusive mate a sometimes-disoriented employee keeps showing up at coworkers homes asupervisor s constant abuse infuriates a subordinate an em-ployee in a fit of rage destroys company property a fired em-ployee makes a direct are just a few examples of the types of incidents that can happen inthe each employer responds to these reports will differ.

a problem employee, coworkers were not warned about the threatening behavior of an ex-employee, or one specialist felt he had to “go it alone” in handling the situation. Also, presenting all cases to a team to consider lessens the chance that one person’s denial of reality could result in a failure to act. Introduction Case Studies

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