Violence in the Workplace: A Growing Problem

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Violence in the Workplace A Growing Problem

It was six years ago this year that our radio and television stations were inundated with visions and news beyond one’s imagination. An unknown individual or group had bombed the Oklahoma City Federal Building. As we sat attentatively watching our television, we saw small children and adults being carried away by fire fighters, and others were laid out on the floor awaiting medical assistance. This was to be one of the worst terrorist attacks the century was to see. Now, six years later we are remembering the lives lost in the bombing. We now know who the responsible individual is and he is now awaiting his execution. But, what about the devastation left behind to those that were injured in the bombing? Those that managed to get away with out a scratch or those that lost a loved one?

As a society we focus on such tragedies as they occur, but sooner than later they are forgotten. Unfortunately, those that survived the terrible ordeal will never forget that experience. Those individuals woke up that morning and got ready for work like any other day and went to work. All individuals do so on a daily basis such violence does not enter their minds. Fortunately, violence of this magnitude is indeed rare. Most of the time we here about ex-boyfriends going to the place of employment and killing their estranged girlfriends and then killing themselves or a disgruntled employee who was fired and came to his place of employment and killed numerous co-workers and then killing himself (Chavez, 2001). According, to the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health reported that employees murdered over 100 bosses and co-workers in 1997. Furthermore, according to the Nor...

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6. Occupational Safety &Health Administration.”Workplace Violence Awareness and Prevention: Facts and Information”.Online.Available:

http://www.osha-slc.gov/sltc/workplaceviolence/index.html

7. Saidel, Judith.”Most Workplace Violence on Women Hidden, Says Center Report”.Online.Available:

Http://www.albany.edu/pr/updates/11-1.html

8. University of Iowa.”Workplace Violence. A report to the Nation”.Online Available:

Http://www.pmeh.uiowa.edu/iprc/NATION.PDF?

9. USDA.”The USDA Handbook on Workplace Violence Prevention and Response”.Online.Available:

Http://www.usda.gov/news/pubs/violence/wpv.htm

10. U.S. Office of Personnel Management.”Dealing with Workplace Violence:A guide for Agency Planners”.Online.Available:

http://opm.gov/ehs/workplac.html

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