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What is workplace violence?Workplace violence is violence or the threat ofviolence against workers. It can occur at oroutside the workplace and can range fromthreats and verbal abuse to physical assaults andhomicide, one of the leading causes of job-relateddeaths.
Although workplace violence programs have. evolved signiï¬ cantly, many employers still use outdated 1990s methods to. address workplace violence. Unfortunately, threats of violence are a fact of life in the workplace. Whether. the economy is good or bad, situations arise that elicit thoughts of hostility, vengeance, or violence in people predisposed to violence.