Idaho Campuses Set to Allow Concealed Carry
Gov. C.L. “Butch” O tter is expected to sign into law a bill allowing concealed guns to be carried on Idaho’s university and college campuses. The legislation was approved in the state House of Representatives 50-19 and also overwhelmingly in the state Senate. Idaho would become the seventh state to allow guns on college campuses, according to the National Conference of State Legislatures. A special permit requiring an eight-hour gun-training course would be required for the campus concealed-carry. Presidents and faculty members of Idaho’s leading universities and the Boise chief of police opposed the measure.
Read more
Utah School District Officers Heavily Armed Twelve officers at the Granite School District Police Department are armed with AR-15 rifles to help protect students and staff. The police chief and two of his sergeants have M-16s at their disposal.
Police Chief Randy Johnson, speaking with KSL, a local NBC affiliate, said the weapons would aid with "rapid response" emergency situations. "If we don't get in and stop the shooter, more people are going to die," Johnson is quoted as saying in the report.
Read More
Bill Passes to Allow Firearms in Florida Schools A Florida House committee approved a bill that would allow trained officials to carry firearms in schools. All officers would be required to attend 40 hours of school- safety training and eight hours of active shooter training annually. They would also need four hours of firearm qualification each year. The officers would also be required to have a carry- and-conceal permit.
Read more
Texas Attorney General OKs Armed School Employees It is not against the law for employees at Texas school districts to carry handguns to protect students at school sporting events or during school board meetings, Attorney General Greg Abbott wrote in an opinion released Friday.
The safety measure, known as the guardian plan, provides armed protection for smaller, rural school districts that cannot afford to hire security. Guardian plans require employees to obtain a concealed handgun permit, American-Statesman reports.
Opponents of the plan argued that putting more guns on campus could bemore dangerous because if police have to respond to a school shooting, they could
mistake a guardian for a suspect, Houston Chronicle reports.
Read more
WORKPLACE VIOLENCE NEWS - continued Safety Climate, Supervisory Behavior Linked to Accident Underreporting
An organization’s safety climate and supervisors’ safety-enforcement behaviors are significantly related to employee underreporting of work-related accidents, according to research. Specifically, employees whose supervisors consistently enforced safety behaviors and who were employed in organizations with a positive safety climate were less likely to engage in accident underreporting. “These results may benefit HR and safety professionals by pinpointing methods of increasing the accuracy of accident reporting, reducing actual safety incidents, and reducing the costs to individuals and organizations that result from underreporting,” said Dr. Tahira M. Probst, author of the report. Although the exact extent of the phenomenon varies, researchers have found that between 50% and 70% of employees did not report accidents and injuries to supervisors and that up to 68% of all workplace accidents and injuries are not captured in national injury surveillance systems set up by the Occupational Safety and Health Administration and the BLS. The results of the research suggest that safety climate and supervisory enforcement behaviors are both important to determining not only whether employees experience accidents at work, but also whether employees are comfortable bringing safety concerns and incidents to the attention of their supervisor in order to address the root causes of the problem.
Read more
SHRM Identifies Health, Safety and Security Trends for 2014
The rise in obesity, legal drug use, new regulations and emerging technology risks are all key developments forecast to transform the management of occupational health and safety in 2014, according to a new report by the Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM). In order of importance, here are the major trends to watch for in managing employee health, safety and security in 2014, according to the HR Disciplines Special Expertise Panel. Obesity is on the rise: The growing number of obese employees or those with obesity risk factors is creating safety and accommodation challenges for employers; New regulations will be announced; GINA litigation will increase: Litigation keeps rising as companies adapt to
Continued on page 8 7
Page 1 |
Page 2 |
Page 3 |
Page 4 |
Page 5 |
Page 6 |
Page 7 |
Page 8 |
Page 9 |
Page 10 |
Page 11 |
Page 12 |
Page 13 |
Page 14 |
Page 15 |
Page 16 |
Page 17 |
Page 18 |
Page 19 |
Page 20 |
Page 21 |
Page 22 |
Page 23 |
Page 24 |
Page 25 |
Page 26