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Violence In The Workplace Working Alone Or In Isolation: Meeting Your Obligations As An Employer

Posted by Ross Arrowsmith on Tuesday, July 31st 2007 under Workplace violence resources   
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From WorkSafeBC: A checklist to help employers meet their obligations regarding working alone and violence in the workplace. View the checklist

Curbing Violence in Retail Workplaces

Posted by Ross Arrowsmith on Monday, July 30th 2007 under Workplace violence resources   
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From WorkSafeBC: More than a thousand British Columbians become casualties of on-the-job violence in retail workplaces every year. Of particular concern are the unpredictable nature of such incidents and the psychological or emotional post-traumatic effects. As with other safety issues, employers have specific obligations under the Occupational Health and Safety Regulation. They must assess the [...]

Preventing Workplace Violence training from WorkSafeBC

Posted by Ross Arrowsmith on Friday, July 27th 2007 under Workplace violence seminars   
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From WorkSafeBC: A one-day WorkSafe education courses, offered by the WorkSafe Education Network, covers preventing workplace violence. Course information WorkSafeBC training website

Measurement Of Violence In The Emergency Department And Assessment Of A Strategy To Reduce Health Care Worker Risk

Posted by Ross Arrowsmith on Thursday, July 26th 2007 under Workplace violence resources   
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From WorkSafeBC: The objective of the study was to examine the perceived levels of violence in an emergency department and obtain from personnel a definition of violence, the degree of stress experienced following a violent incident, and suggested coping and prevention methods. The study would then evaluate the effect of the Prevention Management of Aggressive [...]

Preventing Violence, Robbery, and Theft

Posted by Ross Arrowsmith on Wednesday, July 25th 2007 under Workplace violence resources   
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From WorkSafeBC: This booklet presents some of the group’s ideas and best practices that will help employers and employees prevent workplace violence and deal with incidents effectively if they do occur. Most of the information in this booklet will be useful to both employers and employees; however, Section 3, Preventing Violence, is aimed specifically at [...]

Assisting health care workers to manage the effects of violence in rural and remote Australia

Posted by Ross Arrowsmith on Tuesday, July 24th 2007 under Workplace violence resources   
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From WorkSafeBC.com: The impact of violence on the physical and mental health of individuals, families and communities can be severe and far-reaching. There are many different kinds of violence. It may be from person to person or self-inflicted. It may be physical, sexual or verbal abuse, harassment, bullying or discrimination. Violence does not ‘belong’ to [...]

Violence in the emergency department: A survey of health care workers

Posted by Ross Arrowsmith on Monday, July 23rd 2007 under Workplace violence resources   
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From WorkSafeBC: Violence in the workplace is an ill-defined and underreported concern for health care workers. The objectives of this study were to examine perceived levels of violence in the emergency department, to obtain health care workers’ definitions of violence, to determine the effect of violence on health care workers and to determine coping mechanisms [...]

Standards for Hospital-Based Psychiatric Emergency Services: Observation Units

Posted by Ross Arrowsmith on Friday, July 20th 2007 under Workplace violence resources   
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From WorkSafeBC: Standards for the safe management of patients with mental illness. (Dated March 2000) Read the guide

Workplace Violence Risk Assessment at Langley Memorial Hospital

Posted by Ross Arrowsmith on Thursday, July 19th 2007 under Workplace violence resources   
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From WorkSafeBC: “The consulting firm’s team of specialists’ undertook to review the current workplace violence situation at LMH and to make recommendations for short and long-term actions that would improve the hospital’s workplace violence prevention and management program.” (Dated September 2001) Read the report

Guidelines For Security and Safety Of Health Care And Community Service Workers

Posted by Ross Arrowsmith on Wednesday, July 18th 2007 under Workplace violence resources   
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From WorkSafe BC: “During the past two decades, we have seen a sharp increase in violence in our cities, country and society. Estimates show that nearly one-third of all Americans are victimized by crime each year (Poster & Ryan, 1989). Violence in the workplace is a manifestation of this problem, with homicide being the third [...]

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