This document (2005) by WorkSafeBC (the Workers’ Compensation Board) is designed to aid healthcare organisations in developing, implementing and reviewing violence prevention policies. It seeks to aid organisations in: improving the quality of the working environment; eliminating or minimising the risk of physical or psychological injury, or loss of life; limiting the risk of financial loss for both employees and employers; and ensuring that the user has a violence prevention programme meeting standards adhered to in the US. It describes the process for forming such a plan, from establishing a working group to completing a risk assessment, to developing a plan based upon it and trainings and workshops to implement it, to conducting annual audits to assess its continued currency. Designed for a different context (e.g. healthcare in the US), it nonetheless is largely appropriate to NGO health-based programmes elsewhere.