Workplace violence can have a significant impact on the physical and psychological health and safety of workers.You can help build a safer workplaceK-12 schools are unique and complex workplaces, and both the number of claims and the injury rate related to workplace violence in K-12 schools...
WorkSafeBC, which is the agency responsible for occupational safety and health in British Columbia, Canada, has developed a resource to help employers and workers reduce the risk of domestic violence. The Domestic violence in the workplace toolkit contains materials including a handbook for employers...
Joint Prevention of Workplace Violence: Creating an Innovative Web-based ToolAnnalee Yassi
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 ...