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Workplace security and violence can be under played until it happens to you. You may
think that because you work in a very small office of perhaps five or ten people that you think
you know it may not happen. I worked in an office with four people including myself when a
lady I worked with became upset when I stated a fact. A former Lynchburg Police Office worked
with me and stated I did nothing to warrant the act but never-the-less the lady left, was quite
upset, and unknown to me she made several threatening statements to a co-worker. This then
entangled the Appomattox Sheriffs Office, and the lady was asked to leave the property. In short,
she threatened to go home, get her pistol, and put me out of her mystery. So, what types of
workplace violence are there and what security measures are some business now taking?
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According to (Andrew, 2020), there are several types of workplace violence and they are as
follows:
Criminal Intent – Meaning someone who enters a business or workplace to commit
a robbery or other intent to commit a criminal act.
Customer / Client / Patients – This can be a customer with violence directed at a
customer, employees, students, or anyone an employer provides a service to.
Co-worker – This can be a former employee with a grudge wanting to get even
with a former supervisor, another employee, or the business itself. I may not be a
former employee but a current employee that feels he or she has been wronged and
is seeking revenge.
Personal – This could be an ex-boyfriend, spouse, friend, or relative that seeks
personal revenge or harm to an employee of a business that works there. It is
someone who has a personal relationship with an employee of the business.
Today, any employer should put together a written workplace violence program.
According to (Christina, David, Eugene, & Carri, 2018), this plan should be written by a team to
ensure each division, group, or work team is on board with the program. There may be some that
do not think this is important but, in any place, today incidents can happen from business small
to large.
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Co-worker violence is of particular interest because sometimes that can be prevented. The
lady I spoke of earlier was severely bullied by her supervisor. She was often cried when spoken
loudly too because she felt as if the manager was yelling at her. In fact, she was disabled and
wore hearing aids. So, any loud voice was amplified, and she thought everyone was always
yelling at her. Eventually, when I spoke to her she had spill over or what is called as leakage
from her emotional state. Upper management realized this and took corrective action and aided
the lady in getting therapy and assistance. Sometimes, this is not always possible in larger
organizations where the owners do not directly know the employee or the situation.
In reading through the Bible sometimes these occurrences can be prevented total and
Proverbs has much to say on how hurtful the tongue can be. Yet, I found something else in
another book seldom reference and that is to, “11and to aspire=to live quietly, and=to mind your
own affairs, and=to work with your hands, as we instructed you,=12so that you may=walk properly
before=outsiders and be dependent on no one.” (1 Thessalonians 4:11 – 12)
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Andrew, T. (2020). The Violence-Free Workplace : A Blueprint for Utilizing Professional
Security Officers to Prevent and Respond to Workplace Violence. Boca Ratan:
Productivity Press. Retrieved from ProQuest Ebook Central, https://ebookcentral-
proquest-com.ezproxy.liberty.edu/lib/liberty/detail.action?docID=6348612.
Christina, H. L., David, B. L., Eugene, R. A., & Carri, C. (2018). Workpalce Violence: Issues in
Threat Management. New York: Routledge.
The Holy Bible. (2001). In E. S. Verstion, English Standard Verstion.
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