General:

• On average, 1.7 million violent incidents per year were committed against employees at work.
  (*U.S. Department of Justice 12/2001)
• The average fraud loss for a small business is $127,500 and the average fraud loss for a large company is $97,000. Victims recover less than 25% of their losses in about half of all cases filed. (*2002 Report to the Nation on Occupational Fraud)
• 67% of criminals released from prison in 1994 were re-arrested for at least one serious crime within the next three years (*Bureau of Justice Statistics, 6/2/2006)
  
  False Information:
• The Society of Human Resource Management estimates that 53% of all job applications contained false information in 2003.
• 11% of job applicants misrepresented why they left a former employer*.
• 9% of job applicants falsely claimed they had a college degree, listed false employers, or identified jobs that didn’t exist*.
• Nearly 33% of job applicants listed dates of employment that were inaccurate by more than three months*.
  (*Resume Inflation: Two Wrongs May Mean No Rights, by Barbara Kate Repa, Nolo .com, 11/02/2000)
  
  On-The-Job Violence:
• On-the-job violence costs employers $36 billion each year*.
• The average award in a workplace violence lawsuit exceeds $1 million per case*.
• In May of 1999, an estimated 16,400 threats were made, 723 workers were attacked and 43,800 were harassed every work day*.
  (*Workplace Violence Research Institute) 
  
  
  Drugs:
• One in six workers has a drug problem*.
• 87% of major US firms now test employees, job applicants, or both, for drug use*.
  (*Don’t Hire A Crook, by Dennis DeMay and James R. Flowers Jr., 1999)
  
  
  Employee Theft:
• 30% of all business failures are caused by employee theft.
  (American Management Association and US Chamber of Commerce)
• 14.7% of all applicants admit to theft of merchandise from an employer*.
• 4.4% of all applicants admit to theft of cash from an employer*.
  (*Don’t Hire A Crook, by Dennis DeMay and James R. Flowers Jr., 1999)
• 33% of all applicants admit to being tempted to steal from an employer.
  (*Security Magazine, 3/1997)
  
  
  Bad Hires:
• The cost to replace an employee is higher than you might think - up to 1.5 times their annual salary. In addition, it can take a new employee more than 13 months to become efficient at their job.
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• In 1999, employers lost 60% of negligent hiring/supervision jury trials.
  (*The Reish & Luftman Practical Guide to Employment Law)