To Report Workplace Violence Contact

Risk Management
(626) 585-7534
dinda@pasadena.edu

Campus Police
(805) 585-7489
sxmatchan@pasadena.edu

Human Resources
(805) 585-7310
bcummins@pasadena.edu

Workplace violence encompasses various forms of behavior, including but not limited to the following:

The threat or use of physical force against an employee that may result in or have a high likelihood of resulting in injury, psychological trauma, or stress, regardless of whether the employee sustains a physical injury.

Incidents that entail the threat or use of a firearm or other dangerous weapon, including the use of common objects as weapons, even if the employee does not sustain an injury as a result.

Workplace violence can be categorized into four distinct types:

Type 1 - Violence committed by a person who has no legitimate business at the worksite. This category includes violent acts by anyone who enters the workplace or approaches workers with the intent to commit a crime.

Type 2 - Violence directed at employees by customers, clients, patients, students, inmates, or visitors.

Type 3 - Violence against an employee by a present or former employee, supervisor, or manager.

Type 4 - Violence committed in the workplace by a person who does not work there but has or is known to have had a personal relationship with an employee.

NOTE: Workplace violence does not encompass lawful acts of self-defense or defense of others.