Occupational Health & Safety In Corporations & What are they

Issue – 1How liable should companies be for violent acts committed during work by their own employees?

Workplace violence is a common issue in today’s organizations. It can be either oral or with weapons. This is the incident which make embarrassing situation for the organization. Companies have the strong liability for violent acts committed during work by their own employees.

Companies have the liability of friendly environment of workplace. They must ensure it. They can play a vital role to make it stop. The upper authority should make easy solutions of those critical problems.

Issue – 2 Can companies completely prevent workplace violence? If not, what step can they take to reduce it?

No, companies can’t prevent workplace violence completely.

Good working environment is very important for employees. If they fail to provide this atmosphere, violence will take place all the time. It is not possible to stop violence by taking attacking actions. Company should make friendly atmosphere at every sphere of the organization’s works. They must establish proper code of conducts in the organization. They should unite all the employees in various occasions. Thus they will be able to make a solid bonding among them. Then employees will not attack each other by weapons or even by their speech.

Issue – 3 Why do you think only 1 percent of companies have formal anti-violence committee?

I think that because companies have to pay extra attention on it. There is a few numbers of companies around the world which have proper anti-violence policy. Most of the organizations are busy with the maintenance of their working environment. They have less time to spend before it. So I can say that the reason is - they are least bother about it.

In the context of Bangladesh, it is very rare in our local organizations. Here most of the organizations have the lack of perfection in their official environment management. So they are only busy with their environment building not with anti-violence matters.

Issue – 4 Some companies are considering installing metal detectors to prevent workplace violence. Do you think these measures infringe too much on individual privacy? In other words, can a company take prevention too far?

Some companies are considering installing metal detectors to prevent workplace violence. I don’t think that, it is infringe too much on individual privacy. Because, all employee’s safety is significant than individuals.

Yes, a company is able to take prevention too far. Company can surveillance their office properly by using close circuit cameras. In this process employees will always be in a control of their works and personal attitude toward other peers and subordinates, as well as bosses.

Issue – 5 What factors might lead to violent acts in workplace? Are this acts committed by only a few “sick” individuals, or are many individuals capable of committing acts given certain circumstances?

There are so many factors of violent acts in workplace. When an employee is behaved roughly from his boss or peers, then it makes a crush on his boss or peers. He then tries his best to make them insulted or harassed. Sometimes some employees are neglected by the boss. Bosses do not appraise their performance properly even they have done very good job. After a long time of negligence employees lose their temper and start to make violence.

No, this is not committed only by a few “sick” persons. This violence can be made by other individuals or groups also. It depends on the situations. If a person is deprived of his desired promotion or salary increase for the long time, then he could make violent acts even he is mentally or physically sound.