Workplace Violence Prevention in New Brunswick Under the Occupational Health & Safety Act

Every NB employer with 20+ workers must maintain a written workplace-violence prevention program. Here is how our corporate teams operationalize it.

Under the New Brunswick Occupational Health and Safety Act, every employer with 20 or more employees must maintain a written workplace-violence prevention program that identifies risks, defines reporting protocols, and provides worker training. WorkSafeNB audits this documentation at every workplace review — and gaps are common.

Our corporate division works with HR and legal to build the program, but the real value comes on hostile-termination day. A well-planned termination-escort program keeps the employee's dignity, the manager's safety, and the company's legal posture all intact. We stage two officers off-property, brief with HR, escort in from a discreet entrance, control the room, walk the employee out, and confirm scene reset — all with a written incident report ready for legal by end of day.

Escalated cases — active-threat, bomb-threat, executive-intimidation, or targeted-harassment — require a Threat & Vulnerability Assessment aligned to the Government of Canada TRA methodology. We perform the assessment, draft the response plan, run the tabletop exercise with your executive team, and remain on call for the ninety days that matter most after a triggering event.

Workplace violence is now the leading cause of lost-time WorkSafeNB claims in white-collar sectors. The programs that reduce it are boring, procedural and consistent. That is exactly the kind of work we specialize in.