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Workplace Violence - OPM.gov
W o r k p l a c eiolencedealing withUnited StatesOffice ofPersonnelManagementOffice of Workforce RelationsOWR-09 February 1998a Guide forAgency PlannersAGuide forAgency PlannersFOREWORDP reventing Workplace Violence is a growing concern in the United States. Public interest andmedia attention have focused primarily on dramatic but very rare types of Violence such asshootings by disgruntled employees in office buildings. Planners of Workplace Violence programsface the dual challenge of reducing employees anxiety about very rare risk factors while focusingtheir attention on more likely sources of danger. Undue anxiety about the office gunman canstand in the way of identifying more significant, but less dramatic, risk factors such as poorlylighted parking lots or gaps in employee training programs. This anxiety can also make it moredifficult to cope with one of the most common Workplace Violence problems the employeewhose language or behavior frightens employees in organizations such as the National Institute for Occupational Safety andHealth and the Occupational Safety and Health Administration have played a leading role inhelping employers recognize and respond appropriately to the actual risks of Workplace violencefaced by their employees.
Interagency W orking Group on V iolence in the W orkplace. The purpose was to bring together a multi-disciplinary group of experienced professionals from throughout the Federal Government in order to develop comprehensive approaches to analyzing and responding to threats or incidents of violence in the Federal workplace.
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