Despite an uptick in national disasters over the past few years, members of the general public still admit they are not fully prepared, a new survey finds.

Staff in the Tennessee House of Representatives are being required to take a class on how to survive an active shooter incident.

California Gov. Jerry Brown signed a bill that says that teachers cannot shoot back if they come under attack at school.

Pennsylvania's State Senate passed a bill that would allow school districts the option of permitting employees trained in handling and using firearms to possess them on school premises for additional security.

Nine people were killed during a shooting at Oregon’s Umpqua Community College on Thursday. The shooter, a 26-year-old student, was killed in a shootout with law enforcement. 

Bullying has become a hot topic in the last couple of years. Whether it’s because society has changed what qualifies as acceptable behavior in the workplace, on campus, and in schools or whether it’s because we are more aware of the negative psychological effects that bullying can have during all phases of life has not been determined. But the fact remains that we are becoming more cognizant of bullying and its effects on not only the target of the bullying, but also the bystanders who witness such behavior.

In what investigators are classifying as an attempted murder-suicide, one security company employee shot another before killing himself shortly after 7 a.m. Monday morning. 

Law enforcement authorities in Waseca, Minnesota, say they have thwarted a 17-year-old’s plan to kill his family, start a diversionary fire, set off bombs at an area school during lunch, kill the resource officer on campus and then shoot students.

Workplace violence incidents are not isolated to any one country, so global enterprises should maintain plans for active shooter or workplace violence events for each country of operations. Learn where to start with these top five universal recommendations.