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Workplace Violence Prevention Institute - WVPI
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Providing Workplace Violence Prevention Research, Education and Training
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Workplace violence and increasing attacks on retail workers
Over the course of the past several months, there has been a trend of workplace violence directed toward the nation's retail workers. The...
San Antonio Amazon Teen Employee Charged With Allegedly Threatening a Mass Workplace Shooting
A 19-year-old male worker at a San Antonio Amazon warehouse has been arrested after allegedly advising a co-worker he intended to carry...
Mass shooting in Oslo leaves 2 dead, 10 wounded; Incident being investigated as an act of terrorism
Tragically proving mass violence is not just an American problem, two people were shot dead and at least 10 wounded, some gravely, at the...
Unlearned Lessons from Parkland to Uvalde: AR-15s in the possession of troubled teens
On February 14, 2018, the confessed murderer of 17 innocents (two faculty members and 15 students) and the wounding of 17 others at...
DPS Director Steve McCraw declares on Uvalde shooting and police response
We have been advising a way to prevent the next tragedy from occurring is for all of us to understand Columbine, as this deadly 1999...
OSHA guidelines for preventing workplace violence in the healthcare/social services field
Violence against professionals in the healthcare/social services industry has always been a concern. In the past year, there have been at...
Two Law Enforcement Officers Shot Dead Responding to Call for Help at a California Motel
Two El Monte, California police officers were ambushed and shot dead while responding to a report of a stabbing at a motel just east of...
European study finds bullying a risk factor for workplace violence/cardiovascular disease
A medical study of 79,201 working men and women aged 18-65 in Denmark and Sweden has determined there is a causal connection between...
OSHA recommends HR policies/procedures to mitigate the risk of workplace violence
Proving it "can and does happen here," the latest in a string of increasingly deadly episodes of workplace violence occurred June 9, 2022...
Continuing a trend: 23 year old male worker charged in mass workplace shooting
A 23-year-old employee has been charged with three counts of first degree murder, three counts of second degree murder, and two counts of...
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