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Push grows for guns on campus

Posted by Ross Arrowsmith on Thursday, July 31st 2008 under School/Campus Violence   
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By Jimmy Isaac, News-Journal.com Weston Cartwright remembers his first week at LeTourneau University in 2006, and how he amazed his dorm mates when he returned unharmed from a walk to a South Longview restaurant. “They were like, ‘Are you serious?’ ” Cartwright said. Since then, he’s seen and heard why fellow students deemed a trip [...]

Grants to Plan and Prepare for Campus Emergencies

Posted by Ross Arrowsmith on Wednesday, July 30th 2008 under School/Campus Violence, Workplace violence   
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from U.S. Department of Education U.S. Secretary of Education Margaret Spellings today announced the award of $5.2 million for 13 new grants to colleges and universities to develop and implement emergency management plans for preventing and responding to campus violence and natural disasters in order to ensure the safety of the entire campus community. “Keeping [...]

Men who are bullied often do the same: study

Posted by Ross Arrowsmith on Wednesday, July 30th 2008 under Workplace bullying   
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By Wallace Immen, Globe and Mail Men who are victims of workplace bullying often resort to bullying others as a way of coping, a University of Windsor researcher concludes. In a survey of 180 male workers in Saskatchewan who had been victims of bullying, 37 per cent indicated that they had bullied others with behaviours [...]

Federal judge upholds guns-at-work law

Posted by Ross Arrowsmith on Tuesday, July 29th 2008 under Guns at work   
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By Aaron Deslatte, OrlandoSentinel.com A federal judge has dealt a major defeat to Florida’s business lobby by upholding the main thrust of a new law allowing employees with concealed weapons permits to take their guns to work. The so called “guns-at-work” law was the product of a three-year constitutional clash that pitted the powerful National [...]

UK: Unite the Union Exposes the Shocking Cost of Workplace Bullying

Posted by Ross Arrowsmith on Monday, July 28th 2008 under Workplace violence   
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from ITNews.it The world’s biggest anti-bullying project today (Monday) reveals that employers’ failure to tackle the root causes of bullying in the workplace is costing the UK economy GBP13.75 billion a year. The project also reveals that Black, Minority and Ethnic (BME) workers are more likely to be targets of workplace bullying and harassment than [...]

Employers Are Encouraged to Investigate Further When Doing Background Checks on Job Candidates

Posted by Ross Arrowsmith on Monday, July 28th 2008 under Workplace violence   
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from PR-USA.net “In today’s world, employers are smart to be cautious on who they hire into their companies,” states Ann E. Zaslow-Rethaber of International Search Consultants (ISC), a leading executive search firm that specializes in the sales and marketing industry on a nationwide as well as international basis. “Many employers are now conducting more detailed [...]

UK: Violence shouldn’t be an occupational hazard

Posted by Ross Arrowsmith on Friday, July 25th 2008 under Workplace violence   
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by Anna Bawden, Guardian.co.uk Public workers are most at risk from violence in the workplace. Is enough being done to protect them? Is it more dangerous to work in the public sector? According to the Healthcare Commission, 45% of mental health nurses say they were physically assaulted last year. They are not alone. The Health [...]

Vairginia Tech to release more records in shooting

Posted by Ross Arrowsmith on Thursday, July 24th 2008 under School/Campus Violence   
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By Sue Lindsey, WTOPnews.com Virginia Tech should release all of its records in the April 2007 campus shootings that left 33 people dead so that others can learn from the events, family members of victims said Thursday. University officials said Wednesday that they were partially reversing their decision to withhold certain documents related to the [...]

UK: Mental health violence in East End hospitals puts staff at risk

Posted by Ross Arrowsmith on Thursday, July 24th 2008 under Healthcare violence   
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from East London Advertiser LEVELS of violence are still high on mental health wards in the East End and not enough is being done to ensure the safety of staff and patients who are suffering from physical and verbal abuse, according to a health care watchdog. The East London NHS Foundation Trust received the lowest [...]

Coping with an Office Bully

Posted by Ross Arrowsmith on Wednesday, July 23rd 2008 under Workplace bullying   
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By Catherine Mattice, NoWorkplaceBullies.com You are not alone if you are feeling bullied at work. A 2007 study by Zogby International and the Workplace Bully Institute indicated over 54 million Americans have been bullied at work, or 37% of the American work force. Bullying is repeated and prolonged negative acts aimed at one or more [...]

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