Hirschfeld Kraemer LLP Co-Managing Partner Glen E. Kraemer is quoted in The Press-Enterprise (San Bernardino, Calif.) article titled, “Employers aim to address threats before it's too late.” The piece explores workplace violence prevention in light of the December mass shooting in San Bernardino.
Kraemer, who trains employers across the country in workplace violence prevention and who has conducted post-incident investigations, offered these thoughts:
On the need to be aware of changes in behavior:
“You don’t go from happy to despairing like that.”
On the difficulty of assigning a workplace-driven motive, even partially, to the incident in San Bernardino:
“Threat management teams are really about helping an employee who’s struggling long before they’re an actual perpetrator of workplace violence. We may have seen their limits in San Bernardino.”
On whether “active shooter” training by employers is useful:
“Without warning-sign training, you’re simply dealing with trauma response rather than prevention.”
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