INTEGRATED Systems: Top Choice to Avoid Work Violence
There are three choices in dealing with the risk of workplace violence. First, you can ignore the risk, throw in the towel and believe that it won’t happen in your organization. This is the most frequent approach when dealing with the risk. The belief, call it an ostrich approach, is the top obstacle for managers and security executives who should be proactive. Generally, ostriches conduct a formal or intuitive assessment of the statistical risk of violence occurring in their workplace. Because the odds are very small, not much is put into addressing the issue.
A second choice is to transfer a portion of the risk via insurance. Here the organization does what’s legally required to minimize liability. However, fundamentally these firms just trade the cost of taking preventative efforts for getting payment to cover costs in the event of an incident. The bosses rest easier knowing that the financial impact of a violent incident on the continuity of business has been mitigated. Unfortunately, the real impact on people injured or whose lives are damaged is not necessarily mitigated.