August 06, 2025
Do Your Employees Feel Safe – Workplace Violence on the Rise?
Some results from Traliant’s 2025 Employee Survey Report on Workplace Violence and Safety caught my attention. Consider a few.
- The percentage of employees who report that they have witnessed or been a victim of workplace violence (WPV) have both increased in the last year.
- 75% of employees report having received WPV prevention training. I thought this was great and it surprised me. Has your company provided any employees with WPV prevention training?
- Only 60% of employees say they would report concerns about WPV without an assurance of confidentiality.
Tips? Here are my takeaways from this research.
- If this type of training is a market standard, which it may be as 75% of employers offering it, you may want to consider offering it to avoid a claim of negligence if there is a bad act in your workplace. Talk to your company’s legal counsel.
- Don’t brush this off just because you are in a low-risk industry. Employees’ current and former partners, friends, and foe may want to harm the employee at your workplace.
- Considering the 3rd bullet above, employers may want to consider offering a hotline through which employees can report concerns anonymously.
- If your state does not have a law that enables you, the employer, to seek a peace order against an individual who is threatening to harm your employee at the workplace, talk to your state delegates/senator and ask them to sponsor a bill to give employers that right. It took us 20 YEARS in Maryland to get it done but we did in 2021! (Ask me if you’d like more information).
