Did suspension over a safety incident spark a shooting rampage in Cupertino, CA, that left three people dead and six others injured?
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Tags: Lehigh Permanente, shooting, suspension
A new OSHA directive outlines the types of businesses and the reasons why inspectors will review a company’s workplace violence prevention efforts.
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Tags: General Duty Clause, healthcare, high-crime areas, OSHA directive, retail, working alone, workplace violence
A worker whose job it was to collect overdue cable TV bills, disconnect service and retrieve cable boxes was assaulted while disconnecting service at an apartment complex. Is he eligible for workers’ comp coverage?
Tags: Boxco, cable boxes, collect cable bills, Workers' comp, workplace assault
Attention, those who believe that OSHA has gone overboard with its workplace safety regulations: You’ve got one less fact to support your argument. When all is said and done, the final count of worker fatalities in 2010 will be higher than in 2009.
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Tags: Bureau of Labor Statistics, California, construction, Florida, homicides, New Hampshire, OSHA regulations, Pennsylvania, Texas, transportation, violence, worker deaths
Angry workers don’t need a firearm to attack others, as this case of alleged workplace violence shows.
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What if you could predict which employees would cost your company more in workers’ comp?
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Tags: drug or alcohol abuse, integrity tests, lying, violence, Workers' comp
About a month from now, a 14th state will allow employees to store legally owned firearms in their locked, privately owned vehicles while at work.
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Tags: Gov. Rick Perry, guns in cars at work, Texas
There are probably innumerable ways to break your wrist at work and qualify for workers’ compensation. But punching a customer?
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Tags: Australia, broken wrist, punched customer, Red Rooster, Workers' comp
Last September we told you about a Tennessee OSHA (TOSHA) ruling: allowing guns in businesses that serve alcohol doesn’t create an unsafe workplace. Now, the state has taken the issue one step further.
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Tags: businesses that serve alcohol, guns at work, Tennessee, TOSHA
A bill introduced in the California Assembly seeks to prevent violent acts against healthcare workers.
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They may call them “smart phones,” but sometimes the users end up being dummies.
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Tags: butt dial, SWAT team, workplace violence
Allowing guns in businesses that serve alcohol doesn’t create an unsafe workplace, according to an official with Tennessee OSHA (TOSHA).
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Tags: David Randolph Smith, Gov. Phil Bredesen, guns and alcohol in bars, Tennessee OSHA
As Wal-Mart fights an OSHA general duty clause (GDC) fine about retail crowds, the agency has issued another citation under the catch-all regulation involving workplace violence.
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Tags: General Duty Clause, health care, hospital, workplace violence
Your state says it’s OK to bring guns to work. But as an employer, you think that’s a safety hazard that violates your rights and undermines your responsibilities. What now?
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Another state will soon allow workers to keep guns in their vehicles’ locked trunks and glove compartments in companies’ parking lots.
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Reports say the shooter who killed three others and himself at ABB Group in St. Louis was a retiree who was part of a lawsuit against the company, and he apparently had a gripe against his former employer.
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Tags: ABB Group, bad economy, shooting, workplace violence
A judge has sentenced a man to 65 years in prison for the attempted murder of three of his former co-workers at a Brooklyn, NY, seafood warehouse.
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