A Centers for Disease Control study reveals that within a 30-day period, "more than one in three high school boys admitted to carrying a gun, knife, or club." As the general level of violence in society rises, so does the level of violence at work. In a given 12-month period, more than two million hostile attacks at work on bosses or co- workers occurred in America. More than 1,000 employees murdered their bosses.What do you need to know, given that someone you work with, work for, or who works for you, is a candidate for work place violence?"For the first time in the history of humankind," say authors Tom and Marilyn Ross, "it is safer to live in the wilderness than in civilization." Most of the population feels that it's risky to go for a walk in their own neighborhoods after dark. The authors observe that "this fear inhibits our freedom as surely as do a barbed wire fence."
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