Workplace violence is violence against employee physically or emotionally either it’s a threat or assault.
Workplace violence can happen in various ways, physical assault, verbal abuse or a threat, the violence can take place at the workplace or even outside the work place.

Workplace violence can happen for many reasons, first the employee is working under high work pressure due to poor work load distribution or a conflict between co-workers.
Second, the employee subjection to discrimination for his gender, ethnic or religion.
Third is the employee is under paid from the employer for the job done.
This reasons and many other reasons can lead to disgruntled employee and push him to violent act as a reaction.

In order to prevent workplace violence, I propose the following actions: provide safety education to the employees, Secure the work place, develop and implement policies and regulations for preventing workplace violence.

First, providing safety education to the employees, education is always a key solution to many problems, it increases the level of awareness of the employees, it gives them the guide what to do if they’re ever subjected to work violence either from people inside the organization they work for like colleague or manager or from outside the organization like a customer.
Education also teaches the employee how to do self-assessment, incase there’re signs of internal violence like getting angry or frustrated due to any circumstances then they will know how to deal with themselves and find the right solution or even ask for help.

Second, Securing the work place by hiring security and installing video cameras and security alarm, this action shall prevent work violence to a high extent, if any of the employees shall act violently he shall get recorded and put him under the responsibility, and the security people and security alarm can