9 January, 2015
The Risk of Violence While Helping Others

While not-for-profit organisations are working to help society, they are not immune to the danger of violence present in all workplaces. The risk of violence, either involving an outsider or between two employees, remains a serious safety and health issue – even in a not-for-profit organisation.
Identifying Your Risk
Although risk in not-for-profit organisations depends greatly on the type of activity being performed and cannot be easily generalised, characteristics of some activities in many not-for-profit and faith-based entities are particularly risky: