HR Management & Compliance

Train Employees to Cope with the Aftermath of Workplace Violence

The material in today’s Advisor is adapted from BLR’s 10-Minute HR Trainer session, “Coping with the Aftermath of Workplace Violence.”

Review Security Procedures

  • Review security procedures and equipment (surveillance cameras, silent alarms, etc.). Discuss any changes made as a result of the incident.
  • If there was a breach of security that allowed the perpetrator into the workplace (such as doors left open, an employee knew the person and let him in, etc.), this problem needs to be thoroughly discussed and corrected.
    —Remind employees about sign-in procedures, visitor’s badges, and other steps designed to prevent workplace violence.
    —Emphasize that these rules apply to former employees and friends and family of employees, as well as to strangers.
  • Encourage employees to report any threats, strange behavior in an employee, or suspicious activity immediately.

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Work with Management and Employees to Prevent Future Incidents

  • Take an active role in the effort to make the workplace safer and prevent violence.
  • Encourage employee input concerning security measures and dealing with threats of violence.
  • Stress awareness of the potential for workplace violence regularly so that employees remain vigilant.

Applicable Regulations: None

Training Tips:

  • Review your organization’s violence prevention policy.
  • Review your organization’s security procedures and equipment.
  • Discuss plans for dealing with the aftermath of workplace violence and participants’ roles in those plans.

Knowledge Review:

Distribute copies of the handout and discuss taking care of employees in the aftermath of workplace violence. Then have participants complete the Coping with the Aftermath of Workplace Violence Quiz. It provides a useful review of the subject.


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Trains in 50 key HR topics under all major employment laws, including manager and supervisor responsibilities and how to legally carry out managerial actions from hiring to termination. (See a complete list of topics below.)

Uses the same teaching sequence master teachers use. Every training unit includes an overview, bullet points on key lessons, a quiz, and a handout to reinforce the lesson later.

Completely prewritten and self-contained. Each unit comes as a set of reproducible documents. Just make copies or turn them into overheads and you’re done. (Take a look at a sample lesson below.)

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10-Minute HR Trainer:

Trains in 50 key HR topics, including manager and supervisor responsibilities, under all the major employment laws and shows how best to carry out managerial actions from hiring to legal termination.

Uses the same teaching sequence master teachers use. Every lesson includes an overview, bulleted key lessons, an immediate quiz to test understanding, and a handout to reinforce the learning later.

Completely prewritten and self-contained. Each unit is set up as a group of reproducibles. Just make copies of the materials or turn them into overheads and you’re done. It requires no research, no writing, and no other preparation.

Teaches in as little as 10 minutes. The program gets its name from the fact that each lesson is so concisely written and so focused on the key information needed that there’s not a second’s waste of time. Your managers are in and out almost before they can look at their watches, the door, their watches, the door….

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