Written By Digital Content Editor Thomas Ahearn The California Legislature has passed Senate Bill 553 to protect workers from workplace violence by requiring employers to develop their own workplace violence prevention plans as part of their Cal/OSHA Injury Illness Prevention Plans, according to a news release. The bill advances to Governor Gavin Newsom for his…
Written By Digital Content Editor Thomas Ahearn The April 2023 mass shooting at a bank in Louisville, Kentucky, that killed five people by an employee who knew he would be fired is the latest tragic case of workplace violence and another example of a mass shooting taking place in a workplace in the United States,…
Written By Digital Content Editor Thomas Ahearn On January 18, 2023, the University of Arizona (UA) announced that all of its approximately 2,800 graduate assistants will be required to undergo a criminal background check before they can start work after a former graduate assistant allegedly shot and killed a professor on campus, according to a…
Written By Digital Content Editor Thomas Ahearn An employee who survived a mass shooting by a supervisor at a retail store in Virginia that took the lives of six employees has filed a $50 million lawsuit against the company that claims she submitted a complaint about the gunman two months before the shooting, according to…
Written By Digital Content Editor Thomas Ahearn In July 2022, the Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS), the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), and the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) released a report titled “Indicators of Workplace Violence, 2019” which provides findings on fatal and nonfatal crimes that occurred in the workplace or…
Written By ESR News Blog Editor Thomas Ahearn More than nine in ten healthcare workers – 92 percent – have experienced, or been in close proximity to, workplace violence from a patient or a patient’s caregiver in the past month, while three in four have encountered both verbal and physical assaults, according to a survey…
Written By ESR News Blog Editor Thomas Ahearn In the latest tragic case of workplace violence, officials reported the suspect in a shooting that killed one person at a Kroger grocery store in Collierville, Tennessee, was asked to leave his job as a “third-party vendor” working inside the store on the morning of the incident,…
Written By ESR News Blog Editor Thomas Ahearn Employment Screening Resources® (ESR) has issued a white paper entitled “Workplace Violence and Human Resources: A Brief Introduction” written by ESR founder and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Attorney Lester Rosen to highlight action items Human Resources (HR) and employers may consider to help prevent workplace violence. “With…
Written By ESR News Blog Editor Thomas Ahearn Attorney Lester Rosen, founder and chief executive officer (CEO) of Employment Screening Resources® (ESR), has published an article titled “Workplace Violence and Human Resources: A Brief Introduction” to highlight action items Human Resources (HR) and employers may consider to help prevent workplace violence. “With horrendous incidents of…
Written By ESR News Blog Editor Thomas Ahearn The Valley Transportation Authority (VTA) – which operates bus and light rail services in the Santa Clara Valley – has released documents that revealed an employee who committed a mass shooting in San Jose, California, on May 26, 2021, that killed nine co-workers in a case of…
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