As I write this article on protecting employees from workplace violence, COVID-19 has certainly stolen the show. However, not long before the coronavirus pandemic bore its sights on the U.S., there was a horrible workplace shooting at the Molson Coors plant in Milwaukee where six people died—including the shooter.
With the way our news cycle works, even that workplace disaster—which took place near the end of February—seems a remote incident in the past, and a similar workplace shooting that happened at a Kraft Foods plant in Philadelphia in 2010 seems more like an event occurring a century ago. By the time you read this, hopefully the coronavirus will be starting to decline, having taught us all many things in learning how to deal with a pandemic.