The Workplace Risk Assessment-20 guide (WRA-20)

Workshop 2: 'Who says you can’t immunize the workplace against outbreaks of violence? The WRA-20'

Christopher D. Webster & Hy Bloom

In response to increasing concerns about problematic, disturbing, and violent behaviour in workplaces, various jurisdictions around the world, including most recently, Ontario, Canada, have enacted specific legislation to compel employers to focus on reducing or eliminating the risk for workplace violence in their organizations.

The second part of this workshop on assessing violence risk in the workplace focusses on systemic risk factors that might incite, condone, or passively permit incidents of violence in a work setting.

Towards the end of the talk, the presenters will focus on a recently developed assessment scheme specific to assessing potential risk in the workplace itself (the Workplace Risk Assessment-20 guide, WRA-20).