He or she enters a workplace to commit a criminal act. The person causing the violence is either the recipient or object of a service provided by the workplace, such as a current or former client, a passenger, or a customer. The person causing the violence has an employment-related involvement with the workplace. This can either be someone who has a direct relationship, a current or former employee, or someone who has a relationship to a current or former employee. The confrontation escalates into a physical attack.
All workplaces have the potential for violence.
Certain jobs and types of workplaces are recognized to be at significantly greater risk. As you'll learn in the course, if you have certain risk factors at your work-place, you may be at a higher risk for a Type 1 or Type 2 violent act. Workers in service occupations make up 56.5 percent of these claimants. Employers in Oregon have an additional reason to be concerned about violence in the workplace injuries from these types of incidents may lead to legal liability. Oregon OSHA follows the same course of action.