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…
Written By ESR News Blog Editor Thomas Ahearn A mass shooting at a light rail yard in San Jose, California, by a Valley Transportation Authority (VTA) employee that took the lives of nine co-workers on May 26, 2021, in yet another tragic case of workplace violence is “the latest in a spate of shootings that…
Written By ESR News Blog Editor Thomas Ahearn In December 2020, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) reported there were 5,333 fatal work injuries recorded in the United States in 2019 using data from the Census of Fatal Occupational Injuries (CFOI), a 2 percent increase from the 5,250 in 2018 and the largest annual…
Written By ESR News Blog Editor Thomas Ahearn On December 17, 2019, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) released data from the 2018 Census of Fatal Occupational Injuries (CFOI) that showed there were 5,250 fatal work injuries recorded in the United States in 2018, a 2 percent increase from the 5,147 fatal work injuries…
Written By ESR News Blog Editor Thomas Ahearn A report released in September of 2019 by the Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM) – the world’s largest HR professional society – revealed that one in five Americans has left a job in the past five years due to a “toxic workplace culture” with the turnover…
Written By ESR News Blog Editor Thomas Ahearn A woman injured during the on-camera shooting of two television journalists by their disgruntled former co-worker while being interviewed in August of 2015 has sued the TV station where all three worked for negligent hiring and retention, according to a report from The Roanoke Times. The complaint filed…
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