Joint Prevention of Workplace Violence: Creating an Innovative Web-based ToolAnnalee Yassi
WorkSafeBC Violence in the Workplace: Establish a Prevention Program (online course) Canadian Centre for Occupational Health and Safety Violence / Occupational Hazards in Hospitals Centre for Disease Control and Prevention, U.S.A. (PDF file) Violence Prevention Environmental Assessment Vancouver Island...
From 2010 to 2021, B.C. nurses reported nearly 4,500 injuries related to the use of violence or force that caused them to miss work to WorkSafeBC. From 2017 to 2021, WorkSafeBC found workers in health and social services — a broad cross-section of professions that includes nurses, car...
More than 1,400 workers have already made COVID-19 claims with WorkSafeBC and taken time off of work, Sorenson said, depleting the province’s shortening supply of nurses. On top of that, 40 per cent of the nurses in B.C. are eligible to retire within the next...
Preventing Violence, Robbery, and Theft
1. Although, on average, anti-violence workers who participated in this study reported average levels of physical, depressive and burnout symptoms compared to published norms, there was a substantial number of participants with high symptom levelsJanice Abbott...
Keywords: workplace violence; exposure types; intensity; mental health; nursing 1. Introduction Workplace violence is a prevalent phenomenon in healthcare [1]. Among healthcare workers, nursing professionals are more prone to workplace-violence exposure due to the nature of their work and ...