Health Care Facility Workplace Violence Risk Assessment Toolkit

Violence in the workplace continues to be an area that risk professionals need to be proactively preparing their institutions to prevent. At the same time, the risk professional needs to know what to do in the event they are faced with an immediate situation. This toolkit is designed to assist with both.

ASHRM’s risk assessment looks at the following proactive and reactive areas:

• Patient-to-Staff Violence: proactive prevention, reactive response
• Visitor/Family-to-Staff Violence: proactive prevention, reactive response
• Staff-to-Staff Violence/Harassment: proactive prevention, reactive response
• Physician/Third-Party-Professional-to-Staff Violence/Harassment: proactive prevention, reactive response
• Stranger/Nonemployee-to-Staff Violence: proactive prevention

The links below include a readiness survey and a checklist to ensure you are prepared to prevent violence against staff and a separate tool to have handy to address it if it happens.

Download Toolkit (PDF)   Download Toolkit (Word)

AHA Workplace Violence Resources