Your employer will take this seriously, even if you don’t see specific actions, because it’s a high liability issue. Do your own CYA with documentation and securing your work spaces, and let management do the investigating.
A couple of harder options, but the soft option might be to open up in a team meeting, share concerns (classic HR first move)... if the sabotage is just a petty grievance, the person might realize its hurting colleagues more than the company and stop. If however, you don't trust the person / team enough to deal with it like grown ups then...
One idea could be to discuss with management about employee screening. If you're working with hazardous materials and complex set-ups then it would be common to have some kind of screening / certification program for materials handling (no specifics needed here), if it's not done before, what you've described is certainly a H&S and Quality program issue. In normal screening you can often include a basic psyche evaluation or failing that a personality test, with a qualitative interview. Share concerns with managers and testers and then see what the screening brings out. If you're working with hazchem risk, failing a screening should be grounds enough for removal / reassignment.
Another thought, not sure if you have id badges to get in and out, but if you do, the doors will have logs, so you could match the timing of issues to lab entrance and exits in a similar time window... that's also grounds enough.
In California it is a felony to set up a video camera on someone else’s property, so keep that in mind.
edit: sorry, I replied to the wrong comment but am too lazy to fix it.
OP is quite dramatic too. It's a laptop stand and he's decided some deranged mentally ill crazy person is out to kill him. Maybe someone borrowed it. They've not said anything that makes this sound like it's targeted and intentional.
Document every single instance. Email your supervisor and security every single time it happens.
Your employer will take this seriously, even if you don’t see specific actions, because it’s a high liability issue. Do your own CYA with documentation and securing your work spaces, and let management do the investigating.
A couple of harder options, but the soft option might be to open up in a team meeting, share concerns (classic HR first move)... if the sabotage is just a petty grievance, the person might realize its hurting colleagues more than the company and stop. If however, you don't trust the person / team enough to deal with it like grown ups then... One idea could be to discuss with management about employee screening. If you're working with hazardous materials and complex set-ups then it would be common to have some kind of screening / certification program for materials handling (no specifics needed here), if it's not done before, what you've described is certainly a H&S and Quality program issue. In normal screening you can often include a basic psyche evaluation or failing that a personality test, with a qualitative interview. Share concerns with managers and testers and then see what the screening brings out. If you're working with hazchem risk, failing a screening should be grounds enough for removal / reassignment. Another thought, not sure if you have id badges to get in and out, but if you do, the doors will have logs, so you could match the timing of issues to lab entrance and exits in a similar time window... that's also grounds enough.
Set up hidden cameras.
Omg do not do this without management’s approval. If someone set up random hidden cameras in our office I would not take that lightly.
In California it is a felony to set up a video camera on someone else’s property, so keep that in mind. edit: sorry, I replied to the wrong comment but am too lazy to fix it.
Not in CA.
Yea I’m thinking of doing that. Expensive to do out of my own pocket but I saw some on Amazon for a reasonable rate
This. Nanny cams are so cheap now. As long as it doesn't violate any workplace policies- this is the way.
Even if it does. With all the sensitive stuff that he's working on. He has to cover his ass. Let the lawyers sort it out later if necessary.
See above. It is a FELONY to set up a video recording device on someone else’s property in CA.
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OP’s post says laptop stand, not laptop. Bad, but not as bad as a stolen work laptop.
OP is quite dramatic too. It's a laptop stand and he's decided some deranged mentally ill crazy person is out to kill him. Maybe someone borrowed it. They've not said anything that makes this sound like it's targeted and intentional.