Risk Factors Associated with Workplace Violence

• have contact with the general public?

• provide services in a community-based setting?

• work alone or with a small number of co-workers?

• work late at night or in the early morning hours?

• have a mobile workplace (taxicab, police cruiser, truck driver, delivery van)?

• known or thought to have money at hand?

• guard valuable property or possessions?

• deliver people or goods?

• work with unstable or violent persons?

• work in a high crime area?

• work in a stressful or unstable work environment?