Top stories this week included the shooting in Aurora, Colo., 10 tips to prevent workplace violence and how to secure doors in high-risk facilities. 

Resources such as seminars, online courses, posters, a booklet and a pocket card are all aimed to help inform people on what to do in the event of an active shooter incident.

Awakened from a deep sleep by the midnight call, the corporate-level chief security officer of this Fortune 500 Company knew he was in for a nightmare. His director of security for the firm’s Texas manufacturing facility was on the brink of panic. “One of our employees gunned down, execution-style, a female coworker at the time-clock, fired multiple shots at other employees, and then blew his brains out in the cafeteria.  The police are here. It’s bad – real bad.”  The CSO knows how the rest of the story will unfold, because local management had severely underestimated future risks when the employee was involved in a serious altercation with the same coworker months earlier.

Don't fall behind over the holiday weekend! This week's top articles include background check delays, diversifying camera use and preventing workplace violence and negligence. 

An exclusive report from Security magazine from the International Association for Healthcare Security & Safety (IAHSS) and Emergency Nurses Association (ENA) Workplace Violence Prevention Summit.

A study shows that employee assistance programs often fail to identify or help potential abusers, not just the victims.

This includes six deaths caused by workplace violence.