Handguns in the Workplace: Do They Make You Feel Safe?

The average American employee, working 40 hours a week with two weeks vacation, works 2,000 hours annually. That means that almost 23% of a person’s life is spent at work each year. Do you know if any or how many handguns are in your workplace?

Workplace safety is a major concern of employers who recognize the cost in both human and economic terms of death and injury to their employees. Handguns at work represent a unique risk management.

Workplace violence, while a subset of workplace injuries caused by accident, mechanical or structural failures or carelessness of workers, differs in one very important way: the intent to cause death or injury. Workplace violence, specifically deaths and injuries inflicted by handguns, represents a clear polarization of safe workplace attitudes.