Workplace Threat Assessment in New York After Concerning Communications: Where the Forensic Opinion Helps and Where It Cannot Go

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

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 not a verdict. Workplace threat assessment is the structured appraisal of whether a person is moving along a pathway toward targeted violence—from grievance to ideation to planning, preparation, and approach—and what can in

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