A new breed of novel, Toxic Love merges high-suspense entertainment with cutting-edge legal and psychological information to teach workplace violence prevention. Supplementing traditional corporate hand-outs and threat assessment manuals, Toxic Love uses the compelling fictional story of Nicole Briscoe and her colleagues to bring to life the complex issues faced by 21st century managers and employees. Following the principal characters as they navigate these situations, Toxic Love illustrates how their actions and choices have the power to diffuse and/or exacerbate the threats they experience.
By reading Toxic Love in conjunction with a corporate workplace violence prevention policy, employers and employees will be more able to define prohibited conduct, make professional judgments about the threat posed and recommend containment procedures. This science has developed over the last twenty years and has dramatically improved conditions in the workplace. Homicides have fallen by fifty percent, incidences of physical violence have declined and, increasingly, employer policies and cultural changes have made threats and intimidation unacceptable in most workplaces.
1. Dana Loomis, Preventing Gun Violence in the Workplace, Connecting Research in Security to Practice (CRISP) Report Commissioned by the ASIS International Foundation, Sept. 8, 2008, available at http://www.asisonline.org/foundation/guns.pdf. 2. Bureau of Labor Stats., U. S. Dep’t of Labor, Survey of Workplace Violence Prevention 2005, at 1 (2006), available at http://www.bls.gov/iif/oshwc/osnr0026.pdf.
