This document provides an overview of a workplace violence prevention workshop. It defines violence in the workplace as any physical or verbal abuse that occurs at work, including threats, intimidation, harassment, stalking, beatings, stabbings, suicides, shootings, rapes and psychological trauma. Workplace settings extend beyond physical work buildings and can include locations like parking lots, clients' homes, or while traveling for work.

1. WELCOME TO
VIOLENCE in the
WORKPLACE
PREVENTION
WORKSHOP
ONLINE
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2. Lesson 1
• Identifying Violence in the
Workplace

3. What is Violence in the Workplace?
Violence in the workplace is
any physical
assault, threatening
behavior, or verbal abuse
that occurs in the work
setting.

4. A work setting may be any
location either permanent or
temporary where an
employee performs any
work-related duty.

5. • This includes,
• the buildings and its surrounding
perimeters,
• the parking lots,
• field locations,
• a clients’ home
• or traveling to and from work
assignments

6. Violence in the Workplace Includes
any of the following activities:
• Threats
• Obscene phone calls
• Intimidation
• Harassment of any nature
• Being followed, cursed or
shouted at

7. It also includes:
–Beatings
–Stabbings
–Suicides
–Shootings
–Rapes and
–Psychological traumas

8. • These are some examples of
violence in the workplace …

9. • Verbal threats to inflict bodily harm on
you or someone at the workplace;
including vague or covert threats
• or
• Attempting to cause physical harm;
like striking, pushing and any other
aggressive physical acts against
another person

10. • Making false or malicious
statements against
coworkers, which tend to
damage their reputations
or, making inappropriate
remarks, is also considered
violence in the workplace.

11. • This concludes Lesson 1:
Identifying Violence in the
Workplace.