Depending on your industry and local legislation, your workplace violence program may look different from ours, but regardless, there key areas that must be included in a truly effective workplace violence program.

If you’re concerned that workplace violence is currently an issue or has the potential to become a safety hazard with your team and lone workers – even if it’s at home – you need to determine if you have a violence prevention and mitigation program available through your employer and what the next steps are; if not, you should ask your employer to develop one.

In the health care industry, employees and patients spend a lot of time alone. Known as “code whites”, it is predicated that violent or potentially violent interactions with patients or clients occur up to 10 times per day.

Labour Day in Canada is recognized every first Monday of September since the 1880s. In the second half of the 19 century, Canada was changing rapidly with the increase of immigration, cities growing in numbers, and the industrial revolution drastically altering Canada’s economy and workforce.

It is estimated that violent or potentially violent interactions with patients or clients, also known as "code white", happen as many as 10 times a day. Nurses, who interact with these type of violent patients on a more frequent basis than doctors, are calling for more security including personal alarms.