Every year, nearly two million American workers report being workplace violence victims, according to the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA). In fact, homicide is the fifth-leading cause of workplace fatalities in the United States, accounting for eight percent of all fatal on-the-job injuries.
Nearly half of all states, however, now have laws in some way addressing employees’ rights to possess firearms on or near their employers’ property. Accordingly, employers diligently attempting to take measures to provide a safe workplace must navigate complex waters. Let’s examine some of the issues relevant to “parking lot laws” and how they could create a powder keg of conflicts with your workplace violence policy.
