The true scope of workplace violence is currently unknown. This is especially the case with pandemic-related workplace violence. But we are seeing alarming indicators. In a recent episode of Employment Law This Week Attorney Beth McManus (Senior Counsel in the Employment, Labor & Workforce Management division of Epstein Becker Green) …
Offices and businesses are eager to safely reopen, driving demand for “social distancing barriers“—fixed or mobile countertop “sneeze guards” that prevent virus-laden droplets from passing between visitors and employees. But many of these solutions seem to have been rushed to market. They aren’t much better—or even much better looking—than the …
Workplace safety has taken on a whole new dimension since early spring. Every day brings new ways to decrease risk and increase (if not assure) worker, client, and customer safety—homemade masks and face shields, UV lights and micro-brewery hand sanitizer and remdesivir. But each new solution seems to come with its …
Workplaces across the United States begin to reopen this month. There are four factors that are likely to have a disproportionate impact on the “new normal” for workplace safety: economic distress domestic violence increased gun sales the virus itself Total Security Solutions CEO Jim Richards points out that the stress …
We don’t need to tell you that the United States is currently in uncharted territory. Most of us are extremely anxious: We’re concerned about our loved ones, our communities, our jobs, and the businesses we rely on in order to keep doing what we do. Owing to the critical health …