Workplace Violence

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This paper examines how injuries and deaths that take place at work are often categorized as occupational hazards and fatalities, and one main and profoundly dangerous branch of this larger category is known as workplace violence. It discusses how workplace violence is now increasingly being viewed as a corporate liability because it can often jeopardize the lives of the workers and how, in some cases, such as that of negligent hiring, charges can be brought against the employers. It studies the issue of workplace violence and how it can become an ethical responsibility of the employers to protect their workers from such acts of violence.

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Introduction
How Grave is the Issue
Negligent Hiring
What Employers Need to Do?
Prevention Programs and Other Strategies

From the Paper:

"Negligent hiring is another very common cause of workplace violence and employers can directly responsible for any injury or death resulting from this practice. This is because workplace violence due to negligent hiring has become a common phenomenon where a violent worker would attack his colleagues when things do not go his way. This is in fact the greatest cause of violence on the job, which can result in serious fatalities. Employers can then be held responsible if they failed to check a worker's background when they recruited him. Usually employers are required to thoroughly check the reasons why a worker was removed from his previous job but if the present employers fail to do so, they can be held responsible when that worker becomes violent at workplace and hurts a colleague or client."

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