A Volatility Circle appears which shows the areas of weakness in a business' safety plan. Category one is stranger violence. This is violence committed at the job-site by a stranger with no connection to the site, such as, violence committed in a robbery or burglary. Type two is client violence. This is where a customer or client attacks an employee.
Homicide is the second leading cause of death in the workplace for men.
While a woman may change her residence, she usually must keep her job. A violent partner will know where and when to find his victim. In 1993, Northwestern National Life Insurance Company conducted a study on workplace violence and found these interesting statistics of workplace attacks. The use of a firearm shows that these attacks are planned missions to kill, and not spontaneous spur of the moment fits of insanity. The assailants had an average age of 38.2 years.