Company HR and security professionals began to focus on workplace violence prevention using policies and training as far back as the early ’90s, when the issue was often described as something that happened either rarely, only at the U.S. Postal Service, or both. Early policies included language that prohibited weapons in the workplace and at our schools and spoke somewhat inaccurately of “zero tolerance.”
Times change as events do, and this issue now requires new language and policy developments that fit the company culture and defining both the possibility of workplace violence along with the response to it.
