There are many basic steps you can take to lessen the risk of violent workplace incidents. This post will be part of a multi-part article regarding the prevention of workplace violence.
We hope your practice has already implemented many of these measures, but it never hurts to review them:
- Provide good lighting throughout your facility, especially in hallways and parking areas
- Install silent alarms where appropriate
- Use drop safes to minimize the amount of cash on hand
- Provide bulletproof barriers or enclosures for people who work with cash and are visible to the public
- Ask the police to check the facility when people work late
You might also want to implement these other workplace violence-reducing measures:
- Employ security guards
- Keep doors to the building and certain sections locked
- Install security cameras
- Require employees to wear name tags
- Provide employees with coded door entry cards
- Require employees to turn in badges, entry cards, and other company identification when they leave the company
- Ban former or off-duty employees from the workplace
- Require visitors, including former employees or employees' family members, if permitted, to sign in and wear name tags