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Elements of a Workplace Risk Prevention Program

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Risk management as the words say is the management and caution of risk as to avoid uncertain and negative events and happenings. It is the Identification, Evaluation,¬† and Prioritization of risks as per defined by the researching experts. As to them Risk management‚Äôs objective is to assure uncertainty does not deflect the endeavor from the business goals. Risk¬†management is like a big tree with it’s branches spread in all the directions, one of its branches consist of Workplace management of risk. Employers¬†have a duty to provide a safe workplace and this means having a strong Workplace Violence Prevention Program.

The most successful workplace violence programs incorporate a true assessment of the workplace environment, security, education, and a dedicated monitoring and awareness of employee behavior on the individual level. Let’s look at each of these elements: 

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1. WORK ENVIRONMENT

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Fostering a healthy work environment is a critical step in addressing workplace violence. There are numerous factors to consider here, while at the same time understanding that it may be impossible to expect that every employee will be content with their work environment and will carry out his or her activities with utmost regard. Some factors include creating a professional, healthy, and caring work environment by establishing a sense of fairness and equality,  objectiveness in discipline matters, proper communication and offering mechanisms for complaints and concerns.

 

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  2. SECURITY

If an organization employs a dedicated and cautious security department, it is important that this staff is equipped with the proper resources to include continual training in threat assessment and Identification & proper response level at each and every stage as well as all the members uniformly connected to each other in the case of a Crisis.

 

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3. EDUCATION

Providing the personnel with Continuing education and communication for employees at all levels is another crucial factor in workplace violence prevention. Effective topics that should be taught  include the defining of responsibilities, situational awareness, Crisis resolution, Conflict resolution strategies, and verbal techniques.

 

 4. OBSERVATION AND  AWARENESS

It is one of the primarily important issues to tackle as to prevent Workplace management of risk. The observation of warning signs that could be indicative of what is going towards the wrong direction and making awareness about it,¬† that’s a vital point of preventing hazardous risk in the workplace and awareness should be created towards important issues like safety issues,¬† hygiene,¬† labour turnover, decrease in productivity etc.

 

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These points should always be kept in mind as to avoid uncertain events. Workplace risk security should always be a core part of an organization’s strategy & programming and people should work with an approach of

“ Hope for the best, but Plan for the worst”.
          

                                      

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