Every work day 16,400 threats are made, 723 works are attacked, 43,800 are harassed, and every work year 1,000 people fall victim to homicide at work.
-Risk Management Magazine, October 15, 2001
Incidents of workplace violence cost employers as much as $4.2 billion dollars annually.
-National Safe Workplace Institute
From 1993 to 1999, 1.7 million people a year were attacked as they worked.
-National Crime Victimization Survey, Bureau of Justice Statistics
When convicted sex offender Davit Taitte asked for a delivery job at an Omaha pizza shop, store managers should have checked his background before sending him to people's homes. Jurors found the store negligent and awarded $175,000 to the woman Taitte raped when he delivered pizzas to her house.
-Omaha World-Herald, 9/5/01
Fraud and abuse cost US Organizations more than $400 billion dollars annually. Additionally, the average company losses $9.00 per day per employee about6% of its annual revenue to fraud and abuse committed by its own staff.
-The Association of Fraud Examiners/2001 National Fraud Survey and Report to the Nation
20% of businesses fail because of internal theft and fraud.
-US Chamber of Commerce
The cost of hiring and training a new employee can vary greatly from only a few thousand of dollars for hourly employees to between $75,000 to $100,000 for top executives. Estimates of turnover costs may range from 25 percent to almost 200 percent of annual compensation
-6 Truths About Employee Turnover, American Management Association
It is estimated to cost a company one-third of a new hire's annual salary to replace an employee. Using a wage rate of only $6 per hour, it costs a company $3,600 for each departing employee.
-US Department of Labor