Online Video – Workplace Violence: How to do Your Risk Assessment

Presenters: Glenn French, Canadian Initiative on Workplace Violence; and second panelist to be announced

Duration: 60 to 90 minutes

THE ONE WORKPLACE VIOLENCE EVENT YOU CAN’T MISS

Once the new workplace violence requirements take effect on June 15, Ontario employers will learn what employers across the rest of Canada already know: that conducting a workplace violence hazard assessment is a big challenge.

While workplace violence laws differ slightly by province, they all require employers to conduct a workplace violence hazard assessment. And while employers from outside Ontario have gotten used to dealing with the other requirements of workplace violence regulation, the hazard assessment is still the hardest and least understood part of compliance.

What exactly does a company have to do to comply? Neither the laws themselves nor the guidelines offer specific answers. The only real way to figure out how to do an effective hazard assessment is to learn from the experiences of organizations who’ve actually undergone the process.

And that’s exactly what you will get the chance to do on April 8. During this extraordinary 90 minute webinar, a distinguished panel made up of two of Canada’s most experienced workplace violence experts will lay out a practical risk assessment strategy that you can implement at your own organization.

You will learn how to carry out a workplace violence risk assessment at your workplace, including:

• How to conduct a physical audit of your workplace based on best practices and commonly known hazards;
• How to gather and review the critical documentation you need to carry out the “Workplace Processes” element of the risk assessment;
• How to conduct Individual Threat Assessments, i.e., determination of which individuals at your workplace pose credible threats of violence and how to manage the threats you identify;  and
• How to integrate the hazard assessment process into other EHS operations so that it becomes not simply a one-time affair but an ongoing, audited and continuously improved function.