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  Archive for December, 2007

Bullying: Tackling tormentors

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from PersonnelToday.com The government recently issued guidance for schools on how to address cyber-bullying among pupils. But cyber-bullying isn’t just child’s play. As the popularity of new technologies (cameras on mobile telephones, BlackBerries etc) and internet sites such as YouTube, Facebook, MySpace and other Web 2.0 sites has increased in the workforce, so too has [...]

Policy change focus of inquest into nurse’s death

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from Canadian Occupational Health & Safety News A coroner’s jury examining the murder of an Ontario nurse two years ago has recommended that hospitals implement a policy to address abuse, harassment and domestic violence as issues that may make their way into the workplace. Jury members from the 10-week inquest — which began in September [...]

Domestic violence a workplace issue, too

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from Laura Raines, ajcjobs Domestic violence isn’t just a family or social issue. “It has a major impact in the workplace,” according to Cathy Willis Spraetz, president and CEO of Partnership Against Domestic Violence. One in three women will experience intimate-partner violence — and most of those women work, Spraetz said. Domestic violence is a [...]

Preventing Violence at Work – 2008 Seminar Dates Announced

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from Workers’ Compensation Board – Alberta The WCB – Alberta offers a free, 3-hour seminar to employers who are seeking to develop a workplace violence prevention program. The seminar, entitled; “Preventing Violence at Work” targets professionals from the fields of health & safety, human resources, security and management who are tasked with the responsibility of [...]

School attack alarms staff – Teachers fear bully parents; mom claims son was victim

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from Jamie Komarnicki, Calgary Herald The attack on a principal who was thrown to the ground and punched at a West Dover school highlights a larger issue of increasing parental harassment, says a teachers’ union official. “We know those incidents are on the rise and we know it’s an issue in, I dare say, every [...]

Office Xmas party attacks on the rise

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from theage.com.au (Australia) Victims of sexual assault at workplace Christmas functions are being urged to report the incidents. Assaults have spiked this Christmas party season, and male bosses are to blame in almost three quarters of cases, the NSW Rape Crisis Centre says. Its manager Karen Willis said the centre had received three complaints every [...]

Keep anger in check – Company actions can help prevent workplace violence

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from Laura Raines, ajcjobs Six employees of the Von Maur department store in Omaha, Neb., probably expected some disgruntled as well as happy holiday shoppers as they headed to work on Dec. 6. They didn’t expect a complete stranger with a semi-automatic rifle to end their lives that day. “People read about violence in the [...]

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