Ceasefire
Oregon Presents Gun-Free Workplace Workshop
9/13/00
Contact
Information:
Diana
Madarieta
Ceasefire
Oregon
921 SW
Morrison
Suite
424
Portland,
OR 97205
(503)
220-1669
Ceasefire
Oregon will present a half-day workshop - "Gun Free Workplaces:
What Does
It Take?" - Tuesday, September 19, 2000, for businesses,
non-profits,
government agencies and other employers.
The
workshop will offer the employers attending the tools they need to
develop
and implement gun violence prevention policies in the workplace.
"Business
leaders should know that violence at home and in the workplace is
more
than a moral issue. It's a bottom-line issue too. It raises absenteeism
and
health care cost; and it drives down productivity", said Paul Charron,
Chairman
and CEO of Liz Claiborne Inc.
With
double the number of Americans applying to buy firearms in 1999 as did
in
1998, the workplace becomes more and more susceptible to gun violence, as
do
other sites.
Ceasefire
Oregon has invited lawyers, an insurance industry representative
and an
authority on domestic violence to address questions of liability,
insurance
coverage and the affects of domestic violence in the workplace.
Speakers
will also address the impacts of gun violence on employees and the
strategies
employers can use to mitigate those impacts.
The
workshop is scheduled for September 19, 2000 from 8 am to noon at Legacy
Emanuel
Hospital's Lorenzen Conference Center, 301 N Graham Street.
Conference
Speakers include: Fred Lenzser, District Deputy Attorney for
Multnomah
County, Paula Barran of Barran, Liebman LLP; Chiquita Rollins,
Domestic
Violence coordinator for Multnomah County; Thomas Andersen of SAIF
Corporation
and Brian Malte of Handgun Control Inc. Portland City
Commissioner
Dan Saltzman and Bill Goss, Security Director for Legacy Health
Systems
will welcome workshop participants.
For
additional information on "Gun Free Workplaces: What Does It Take?"
please
contact Ceasefire Oregon at 503/220-1669. Ceasefire Oregon is a
community-based
organization dedicated to building safe and healthy
communities
free from gun violence.