| People nowadays face different pressures stemming | | | | duty. A majority of this killed during robberies, a |
| from family commitments and work obligations, which | | | | greater number are those who in the retail trade |
| sometimes leads to stress at home or in the | | | | such as convenience stores, bars, gas stations, and |
| workplace. When people carry their personal stress | | | | fast-food restaurants. Others are those who work in |
| to the workplace there is bound to be acts that may | | | | the service industry which includes taxi service, |
| t.. People nowadays face different pressures | | | | hotels, auto repair, and guard services. The rest are |
| stemming from family commitments and work | | | | caught in workplace homicides or they face violence |
| obligations, which sometimes leads to stress at home | | | | from vindictive customers and co-workers or from |
| or in the workplace. When people carry their personal | | | | angry relatives and acquaintances. |
| stress to the workplace there is bound to be acts | | | | There is also increasing cases of people getting |
| that may threaten the peaceful coexistence, hence | | | | attacked in the presumably safe havens like in the |
| leading to violence in the workplace. Also when | | | | premises of private offices. In the office setting the |
| people work in environments that have security | | | | targets are in most cases co-employees and people |
| concerns, they are bound to be involved in instances | | | | in senior management positions. Many instances have |
| that can threaten their safety. | | | | been reported where a worker goes on shooting |
| Violence is an expression of physical or verbal force | | | | spree on fellow workers. This is sometimes attributed |
| against self or other people that can hurt or cause | | | | to personal stress that gets a vent in the office. In |
| pain. World over violence is used by the aggressors | | | | other instances, because of work related reasons, a |
| as tools of manipulation and intimidation. | | | | worker can plan to harm another one for reasons |
| Violence in the workplace is becoming a common | | | | best known between the two. |
| occurrence and is considered a serious safety and | | | | To prevent instances of violence in the work place, |
| health issue that in the extreme form, may lead to | | | | employers should establish zero-tolerance policy |
| fatal occupational injury. Violence in workplace can | | | | towards workplace violence and also a workplace |
| occur at the workplace or outside and it ranges from | | | | violence prevention program to check on any |
| threats and verbal outbursts to physical assaults and | | | | instance that can disrupt the peaceful coexistence in |
| in some extreme cases, it may end up in homicide. | | | | the workplace. |
| World over many workers are at the risk of facing | | | | It is also important to educate the workers to know |
| the many forms of violence in the workplace but | | | | violence in the workplace is a criminal offence that is |
| those workers who handle money or exchange | | | | punishable in law. Employers should be taught to |
| money with the public stand at a high risk of getting | | | | know about fair employment practices, relationships, |
| assaulted. These include security guards, healthcare | | | | discrimination, the effects of alcohol and drug abuse, |
| and social service workers, taxi operators, | | | | as these are some of the triggers of violence in the |
| community and social workers in crime invested areas | | | | office. Equally, the managers need training on how to |
| among others. | | | | deal with problematic workers fairly and with dignity |
| Most of these workers are killed during robberies | | | | because when it is not done properly, it can trigger |
| where they are encounter violence either by getting | | | | more violence in the workplace. |
| caught in cross-fire or are killed while in the line of | | | | |