Workplace Violence Prevention

Safety in healthcare is often discussed as a patient outcome. Less often is it named for what it also is: a basic human right for those who deliver care. This chapter reframes workforce safety not as a compliance exercise, but as a foundational domain of quality itself. It explores how the very compassion that draws clinicians into service can, over time, expose them to fatigue, moral strain, and workplace violence. Through real world examples, the chapter shows how culture, environment, and leadership response determine whether harm is interrupted or quietly repeated. When psychological safety, shared accountability, and system design are treated as inseparable, organizations can move toward cultures of protection in which people feel not only physically safe, but genuinely valued.