Long Beach City College (LBCC) is committed to promoting a safe, non-threatening, and healthy environment for all LBCC employees, students, and the public. Our goal is to maintain a workplace free of threats, acts of violence, or hazards specific to the worksite or job assignment. Each employee, at every work site and every level of employment is responsible for a workplace free from violence and hazards.

No employee shall be subjected to retaliation, reprisal, or disciplinary action for reporting acts pursuant to this policy.

LBCC prohibits and will not tolerate, any form of workplace violence by any employee or third party, including customers, clients, vendors, visitors, students, or others, either at the workplace, in or on LBCC property, or at LBCC-sponsored events.

The Workplace Violence Prevention Plan (WVPP) is established, implemented, maintained, and in effect at all times in all work areas affected, as required by California SB 533. The WVPP is designed to educate members of the LBCC community how to report threatening or potentially violent acts and how this information will be evaluated.

Workplace Violence Reporting Form

Workplace violence: any act of violence or threat of violence that occurs in a place of employment, including, but not limited to, the following: (i) 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; (ii) 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; and (iii) the following four workplace violence types:

• Type 1 violence: workplace violence committed by a person who has no legitimate business at the worksite, including violent acts by anyone who enters the workplace or approaches employees with the intent to commit a crime.
• Type 2 violence: workplace violence directed at employees by customers, clients, patients, students, inmates, or visitors.
• Type 3 violence: workplace violence against an employee by a present or former employee, supervisor, or manager.
• Type 4 violence: workplace violence committed in the workplace by a person who does not work there but has or is known to have had a personal relationship with an employee.
• Workplace Violence Prevention Plan 
• Workplace Violence Prevention Plan Quick Guide