Work Place Violence

Work Place Violence

Introduction

Defining workplace violence has generated considerable discussion, especially among government agencies. When we think of workplace violence, we think of physical actions that result in death or bodily injury inflicted against another individual. But the use of offensive language, threats, making an individual uncomfortable and even harassment have been added to the definition because of the nature of these terms. The National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health created a reasonable working definition of workplace violence as; "violent acts, including physical assaults and threats of assault, directed toward persons at work or on duty"(Annakin, 2004).

Supervisor

The employee is a supervisor if they have the power and authority to perform the following (depending on the Ontario Ministry of Labor):

1. Give instructions as well as orders to subordinates.

2. be responsible for the work and actions of other employees.

If the employee can not do above, legally he or she is probably not the head, but also in some other categories, such as lead hand.

Head, first overseer whose main task is to ensure that subordinate groups to withdraw from the assigned amount of production when they should do it and within an acceptable level of quality, value and security.

Supervisor is responsible for the performance and actions of a small group of employees. Head has several roles as a manager, responsibilities and powers. Two of the key differences between the chief and the manager: (1) Head usually do not have "hire and fire" authority, and (2) The Commissioner has no budgetary authority(Annakin, 2004).

Physical Protection Systems

Physical Protection Systems (PPS) involves the Risk Management and Violence Policy which is an important factor to prevent workplace violence.

Risk Management

Ideas for managing risk and preventive measures favored successful organizations include:

Changing the physical facilities to provide additional security to control the movement of people ...