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Environmental Assessment For Workplace Security

Evaluator:_____________________________________________________

Location:______________________________________________________

Observer:______________________________________________________

Periodic inspections for security hazards are necessary to identify and evaluate changes in employee work practices, and may require assessing for more than one type of workplace violence. This survey is used to identify and evaluate workplace security hazards.

SECTION I

Type I workplace security hazards.

1. Cash transactions? _____Yes Answer the following questions

_____No Go to Section II

2. The exterior and interior of the workplace for its attractiveness to robbers.

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3. The need for security surveillance measures, such as mirrors or cameras.

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4. Posting of signs notifying the public that limited cash is kept on the premises.

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5. Procedures for employee response during a robbery or other criminal act.

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6. Procedures for reporting suspicious persons of activities.

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7. Posting of emergency telephone numbers for University Police

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8. Limiting the amount of cash on hand and using time access safes for large bills.

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9. Employee/Evaluator comments:

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Type II workplace security hazards.

1. Provide a service? _____Yes Answer the following

_____No Go to Section III

2. Access to, and freedom of movement within, the workplace.

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3. Adequacy of workplace security systems, such as door locks, security windows, physical barriers and restraint systems.

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4. Frequency and severity of threatening or hostile situations that may lead to violent acts by persons who are service recipients of our establishment.

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5. Employees’ skill in safely handling threatening or hostile service recipients.

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6. Effectiveness of systems and procedures to warn others of a security danger or to summon assistance, e.g., alarms or panic buttons.

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7. The use of work practices such as “buddy” systems for specified emergency events.

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8. The availability of employee escape routes.

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9. Employee/Evaluator comments:

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SECTION III

Type III workplace security hazards.

1. How well has our campus workplace violence policy been communicated to employees, supervisors and managers.

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2. How well does campus management and employees communicate with each other.

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3. Employees’ knowledge of the warning signs of potential workplace violence.

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4. Access to, and freedom of movement within, the workplace by non-employees, including recently discharged employees.

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5. Frequency and severity of employee reports of threats of physical or verbal abuse by managers, supervisors or other employees.

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6. Any prior violent acts, threats of physical violence, verbal abuse, property damage or other signs of strain or pressure in the workplace.

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7. Employee disciplinary and discharge procedures.

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8. How thorough are the backgrounds on new hires?

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9. Employee/Evaluator comments:

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Environmental Health and Safety 7/22/2008 TW
Environmental Assessment