The workplace is defined as any location owned, leased, or rented by The Regents of the University of California on behalf of the University of California, Berkeley, or any location where a University employee is acting in the course and scope of employment. This includes, but is not limited to, buildings, grounds, and surrounding perimeters, including parking lots, field locations, classrooms, and residence halls. It also includes vehicles when those vehicles are used for University business. It does not include employees who telework from a location of their choosing that is outside UC’s control.
Workplace violence is defined broadly as any act of violence or threat of violence that occurs in a place of employment.
Workplace violence includes, but is not limited to, the following:
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The threat or use of physical force against an employee that results in, or has a high likelihood of resulting in, injury, psychological trauma, or stress, regardless of whether the employee sustains an injury.
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An incident involving a threat or use of a firearm or other dangerous weapon, including the use of common objects as weapons, regardless of whether the employee sustains an injury.
Workplace violence does not include lawful acts of self-defense or defense of others.
Violent behavior involves a physical assault on a person, or a physical action intended to damage property. It does not include lawful acts of self-defense or the defense of others.
Intimidation is engaging in actions that include but are not limited to behavior intended to frighten, coerce, or induce duress.
Abusive Conduct may take many forms, including but not limited to conduct involving physical actions and/or verbal, non-verbal, electronic, or written communication. It is harassing or threatening behavior that is sufficiently severe, persistent, or pervasive conduct in the workplace that denies, adversely limits, or interferes with a person’s participation in or benefit from the education, employment, or other programs or activities of the University. The conduct creates an environment, whether intended or not, that a reasonable person would find to be intimidating or offensive and unrelated to the University’s legitimate educational, employment, and business interests. Reference: Addressing Abusive Conduct in the Workplace (https://hr.berkeley.edu/employee-labor-relations/employee-relations-policies/employee-relations/addressing-abusive-conduct)
Stalking involves harassing or pestering an individual, in person, in writing, by telephone, or by electronic format. Stalking also involves following an individual, spying on an individual, alarming the recipient or causing the recipient distress and may involve violence or the fear of violence.
Credible Threat is a knowing and willful statement or course of conduct that would place a reasonable person in fear for their safety, or the safety of their immediate family, and that serves no legitimate purpose. It is the expression of intent to cause physical or mental harm whether verbal or written that would cause a reasonable person to fear for his or her safety or the safety of others. It includes bringing a firearm, knife, or other weapon of any kind onto campus property. An expression constitutes a threat without regard to whether the party communicating the threat has the present ability to carry it out and without regard to whether the expression is contingent, conditional, or future.
Physical Attack is unwanted or hostile physical contact such as hitting, fighting, pushing, shoving, or throwing objects.
Domestic Violence is the use of abusive or violent behavior, including threats and intimidation, between people who have an ongoing or prior intimate relationship. This could include people who are married, live together, or date or who have been married, lived together, or dated.
Property Damage is intentional damage to property and includes property owned by the University of California, Berkeley, or its employees, visitors, vendors or others.
