An anti-harassment policy is a key component of a complete harassment prevention effort. Check the box below if your anti-harassment policy contains the following elements: An unequivocal statement that harassment based on any protected characteristic will not be tolerated An easy-to-understand description of prohibited conduct, including examples A description of a reporting system - available to employees who experience harassment as well as those who observe harassment - that provides multiple avenues to report, in a manner easily accessible to employees A statement that the reporting system will provide a prompt, thorough, and impartial investigation A statement that the identity [...]

An anti-harassment policy is a key component of a complete harassment prevention effort. Check the box below if your anti-harassment policy contains the following elements: An unequivocal statement that harassment based on any protected characteristic will not be tolerated An easy-to-understand description of prohibited conduct, including examples A description of a reporting system - available to employees who experience harassment as well as those who observe harassment - that provides multiple avenues to report, in a manner easily accessible to employees A statement that the reporting system will provide a prompt, thorough, and impartial investigation A statement that the identity [...]

On March 29th, 2009, Robert Stewart murdered 7 elderly residents and 1 nurse in the Carthage, NC retirement home where his wife was working. He reportedly shot out her car windows before starting the rampage inside the facility. At the time, she did not know that it was him as she reportedly hid in a bathroom. Raina Johnson allegedly made threatening calls to her ex-girlfriend’s workplace when they broke up in early September 2007. Despite court orders for Johnson to stay away from her ex-partner after an earlier assault, she shot the victim outside a Safeway Supermarket in Washington, D.C. [...]

Most companies are in business to make money. Of course, safety and profitability are perfectly compatible. But because it doesn’t generate revenue, safety tends to be seen as a cost center absorbing resources that could be more profitably invested in initiatives more closely tied to revenue generation. Your success as a safety coordinator might very well turn on how well you dispel that notion.  The good news is that research like the seminal 2001 Liberty Mutual study show that CEOs and corporate decision makers are coming to appreciate that safety programs do—or at least have the potential to—generate positive return [...]

Companies have historically regarded safety expenditures as a necessary evil rather than a profitable investment. In modern times, companies have begun to wise up and understand that spending money on safety is "good for business." But even among the enlightened, the perception persists that safety doesn't actually make money; it just helps prevent losing it. In fact, most safety directors concede the truth of this argument and focus all of their attention on the loss side when advocating safety. The safety-is-good-for-business-because-it-prevents-losses formula is fine as far as it goes. But, while preventing losses is powerful stuff, making money is even [...]