Workplace Threat Assessment After Concerning Messages

Stephan M. Carlson, MD, MBA, FAPA · Employment and Fitness

Short answer: a workplace threat assessment evaluates context, capability, and trajectory after concerning communications. It is distinct from a fitness for duty evaluation and cannot predict individual acts of violence. An employee sends a message that reads as menacing, and counsel asks a deceptively simple question: is this person dangerous? A defensible threat assessment answers a narrower one—what the communication, read against this employee's history and context, says about the likelihood of targeted violence—and stays candid about how provisional that estimate is. What a concerning communication does and does not establish A single email, text, or post is data, not a diagnosis and no

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