Product Description
Designed and written as a practical workplace training and reference tool. This 182-page pocket guide is filled with clear-language text including safety tips, charts, diagrams, checklists and illustrations.
Objectives
This is your guide to developing a workplace violence prevention program. Using the advice in this booklet, you will be able to:
- Identify risk factors
- Develop a prevention policy
- Conduct a hazard assessment
- Develop a comprehensive prevention program
- Develop procedures for reporting and investigating incidents
- Develop a critical incident management plan
- Develop victim support services
- Follow-up on and learn from incidents
- Develop a training program
- Identify relevant legislation
Scope
This guide will assist in the development and implementation of a workplace-specific violence prevention program. It is a practical hand-out for participants in employee training sessions.
The guide does not address the specific needs of police officers, security guards, prison guards or others whose job it is to manage potentially violent people and situations.
Target Audience
This guide is written for anyone who wants to learn about workplace violence and its prevention. It is especially useful to individuals involved in the development and implementation of workplace violence prevention programs.
Each publication produced by CCOHS undergoes several stages of review. As part of this review, representatives from government, employers, and labour are requested to comment on draft copies of CCOHS documents for technical accuracy and readability.
Although every effort is made to ensure accuracy and completeness of the information, it is understood that CCOHS makes no warranty as to the accuracy or completeness of such information and assumes no liability for any damages or loss suffered as a result of any inaccuracy or incompleteness therein.
