What drives workplace violence? And what can we do about it?
Lauren Finestone
Workplace violence isn’t just about frontline interactions. It’s shaped by a web of organisational, environmental and social factors that need to be addressed through system-wide prevention.Work-related violence is often treated as a one-off event. A crisis to manage, report and move on from. But research suggests we need to look further upstream. A review of the evidence maps the web of factors that drive workplace violence, particularly in public-facing roles like healthcare, emergency services and public transport. It applies a systems lens, showing how individual, situational, organisational and even societal forces interact to...
Published 03 February, 2026
