Tools for developing a workplace violence prevention program.

E Askari

PubMed · 8936263

Tools for developing a workplace violence prevention program.

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This chapter details the efforts of a labor education program to develop a guidebook to provide unions and joint labor-management groups with tools that can be used to assess the risk of violence. The guidebook's hazard assessment checklist and policy checklist are reprinted at the end of the chapter.

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