Workplace Violence Minimization

Dr. Richard T. Braley

Associate Dean

College of Education

Texas A&M University - Kingsville, Texas

Miscellaneous

Identify and Minimize the At-Risk Work Environment
1.	Chronic Labor - Management Disputes
2.	Frequent Grievances Files
3.	Large Number of of Injury Claims
4.	Understaffing or Excessive Demands for Overtime
5.	High Number of Stressed Personnel
6.	Authoritarian Management Approach

Exercise Threat Options Based Upon a Violence Policy
1.	No Action
2.	Customary Discipline
3,	Opportunity to Resign
4.	Voluntary Counseling
5.	Mandatory Counseling
6.	Fit-for-Duty Evaluation

Be Alert
	Have a Mechanism to Alert Others of Emerging Event
	Learn Body Language for Non-Violent Retreat from Situations
	Have an Escape Strategy
	Have a Strategy to Render First Aid and Restrain Perpetrator

Contact Dr. Braley for a Violence Seminar.

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