or example, have set to help workers deal CAP providers report certainty, they're problems than Maced emotional cern, and with -dustries and in Dear to be more otional stressors Cay, says Sandra on-the-job els all around, times may specialist whose Js keeping an eye on potentially dangerous ex-employees for their former employers, agrees: "Tough times," he says, "will cause people to do crazy things: By the same token, says Laurence Miller, a forensic psy chologist and author of From Difficult to Disturbed: Understand ing and Managing Dysfunctional Employees, economic stress alone won't turn someone into a killer, nor is the average co- worker likely to turn violent without warning. "People shouldn't be sitting around wondering if someone they've been working with for years who's been a regular guy [with] no real problems is going to suddenly snap and go ballistic on them says Miller. "It's usually somebody," he warns, "that's had a long streak of problems." Unfortunately, that profile fits Jason Rodriguez, who'd been struggling for years with marital and mental health problems, unemployment, debt, and smoldering anger. He was a very, very angry man" reports his former mother-in-law. place vio- nals and mection is ports that to Rick EAP THINK IT OVER 1. Have you ever experienced a case of workplace violence? 2. What role, if any, might the organization itself play in instigating workplace violence? 3. Can the threat of workplace violence ever be completely eliminated? Why or why not? afety The truth is that many accidents do occur in the work- actually not healthy