Workplace Violence Incidents

Workplace Violence Incidents

Types of Workplace Violence

Workplace violence is any act of violence or threat of violence that occurs in a place of employment, including, but not limited to, the following:

1. The threat or use of physical force against an employee that results in, or has a high likelihood of resulting in, injury, psychological trauma, or stress, regardless of whether the employee sustains an injury;
2. An incident involving a threat or use of a firearm or other dangerous weapon, including the use of common objects as weapons, regardless of whether the employee sustains an injury; and
3. The following four workplace violence types:
   1. Type 1 violence: workplace violence committed by a person who has no legitimate business at the worksite, including violent acts by anyone who enters the workplace or approaches employees with the intent to commit a crime.
   2. Type 2 violence: workplace violence directed at employees by customers, clients, patients, students, inmates, or visitors.
   3. Type 3 violence: workplace violence against an employee by a present or former employee, supervisor, or manager.
   4. Type 4 violence: workplace violence committed in the workplace by a person who does not work there but has or is known to have had a personal relationship with an employee.

Report a Workplace Violence Incident - Form

Workplace Violence Incidents may also be reported to any of the following using a hard-copy version of the reporting form:

• To the employee’s immediate supervisor or manager.
• To LBUSD’s Office of School Safety. 
• To Human Resources/Employee Relations.