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According to one study by the Workplace Violence Research Institute, every workday, an estimated 16,400 threats are made, 723 workers are attacked, and 43,800 workers are harassed.

One of the most common known causes of workplace violence today is domestic violence that spills over into the workplace. The U.S. Department of Labor reports that the alleged assailant in about one in every six homicides of women at work is a current or former husband or boyfriend. Domestic violence costs employers billions of dollars each year.

Consider these figures from the U.S. Department of Justice:

74 % of employed battered women are harassed by their abuser at work
56% are late for work and 28% leave early at least 5 days a month
54% miss at least three days a month
75% have used company time to deal with their violence related matters.

According to the United States Department of Justice, More than 80% of all workplace homicides were committed with a firearm.

1 in 4 workers are attacked, threatened or harassed each year Ð costing $13.5 billion annually in medical costs. According to the U.S. Department of Justice, the workplace is the most dangerous place to be in America! The problem is so pervasive that the Center For Disease Control has classified workplace

According to the 1999 Workplace Violence Survey conducted by SHRM, 57 percent of human resource professionals said that a violent incident occurred in their workplace between January 1996 and July 1999. The survey also found that the most common acts of violence were verbal threats, 41 percent, and pushing and shoving, 19 percent. Shootings and stabbings accounted for 2 percent of workplace violence incidences.