ABSTRACT
The focus of any workplace should be on maintaining job performance and improving safety and not on managing personality problems. However, the OSHA determined, “Each employer shall furnish to each of his employees employment and a place of employment which are free from recognized hazards that are causing or are likely to cause death or serious physical harm to his employees” (OSHA, 2003 [29 U.S.C. 654(a)]). In recent years, interpretations of this policy have come to include personal safety. It is essential that supervisory personnel be trained to recognize whether an employee is capable of nonhostile civil conduct. The forwardthinking workplace has instituted workplace violence policies that are similar in scope to sexual harassment policies and protocol.
