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Confronting workplace violence

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from The University of Western Ontario Tuesday, October 28, 2008 Some of Ontario’s leading thinkers on workplace violence, as well as relatives of two women murdered in the workplace, will be gathering at The University of Western Ontario this week. The Centre for Research and Education on Violence against Women and Children (CREVAWC) at the [...]

AU: Safety matters says Cabramatta GP

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By Jenna Daroczy, Fairfield City Champion Doctors should not need the strength of Russell Crowe’s gladiator in order to feel safe in their clinics, according to Cabramatta GP Dr Huy An. Dr An has co-written a report on GP safety with the Australian College of General Practitioners and the school of architecture at RMIT University [...]

Virginia Tech Tests Emergency Notification System

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Press Release from Industrial Embedded Systems This month, Virginia Tech conducted the first campus-wide test of its emergency mass notification system since installing visual alerting displays. During the multi-modal test, Virginia Tech instantly communicated to the vast majority of its campus community with Inova Solution’s OnAlert™ LED displays, while other modes of communication, such as [...]

Collins Bay staff file complaints over new unit

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By Rob Tripp, The Kingston Whig Standard Corrections Canada has quietly opened a new $58-million prison complex that penitentiary workers warn is unsafe. As of yesterday, eight federal inmates had been moved into one of four new living units erected inside the stone walls of Collins Bay Institution on Bath Road, according to the union [...]

Eco-Bullies in the Office: Don’t carry a cloth lunch bag to work? Tsk, tsk

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By Sarah Boesveld, The Globe and Mail Kevin Z. failed to look over his shoulder the day he chucked his empty Coke can in the office trash bin. Little did he know he was being watched. It wasn’t a moment before a particularly zealous environmentalist sauntered up behind him, rescued the can from the trash [...]

Workplace bullies are costly

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By John Stancavage, psycport.com Dr. Gary Namie wants to get one thing straight: People who verbally abuse and otherwise intimidate others at work are not doing it for the good of the company. “A workplace bully will say he or she needs to use fear to motivate people,” Namie said. “But bullying has nothing to [...]

Health-care workers face the hazard of violence

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Press Release from, The National Union of Public and General Employees Consultation Paper on Workplace Violence Prevention. The Ontario Public Service Employees Union (OPSEU/NUPGE) and The Ontario Nurses’ Association (ONA) are demanding that the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH) take immediate action to stop violent attacks on front-line health-care workers. In less than [...]

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