Attacks at US Medical Centers Show Why Health Care Is One of the Nation's Most Violent Fields

>Such attacks have helped make health care one of the nation's most violent fields. Data shows American health care workers now suffer more nonfatal injuries from workplace violence than workers in any other profession, including law enforcement.
https://www.usnews.com/news/business/articles/2023-08-07/attacks-at-us-medical-centers-show-why-health-care-is-one-of-the-nations-most-violent-fields #US #gunviolence #healthcare #violence #workplaceviolence

Global News BC: Man who attacked B.C. Uber driver sentenced to 1 day in jail, 1 year probation https://globalnews.ca/news/9810471/abbotsford-uber-assault-sentence/ #globalnews #britishcolumbia #news #uberassaultsentence #WorkplaceViolence #gigworkersafety #WorkplaceSafety #CaughtOnCamera #williamtickle #UberAssault #Abbotsford #Ride-share #gigworker #Rideshare #AmanSood #gigwork #Crime #Uber

New Law Protects NJ Healthcare Workers From Threats and Assaults https://www.gelmans.com/ReadingRoom/tabid/65/ArtMID/1482/ArticleID/1101/preview/true/Default.aspx #Healthcare #WorkplaceViolence #WorkersCompensation

Well.

Another mass shooting in #KY.
5 people dead. 6 more to the hospital.

#Kentucky #Louisville

What about the rights of these victims? Who will speak out for them?

Does the shooter's mental health even matter? If he/she was simply able to purchase a weapon of war?

#BanAssault Weapons #WorkplaceViolence #MSNBC

Today In Labor History March 27, 1904: The authorities kicked Mother Jones out of Colorado for “stirring-up” striking coal miners. Earlier in March, the authorities deported 60 striking miners from Colorado. In June, they arrested 22 in Telluride. For nearly 2 years, strikers, led by the Western Federation of Miners, were violently attacked by Pinkerton and Baldwin-Felts detectives. 33 strikers were killed. At least two scholars have said “There is no episode in American labor history in which violence was as systematically used by employers as in the Colorado labor war of 1903 and 1904.”

#WorkingClass #LaborHistory #colorado #union #strike #mining #MotherJones #WorkplaceViolence #scabs #coal #Pinkertons

WTAFF?
This asshole deserves more than just being fired, he deserves to never be allowed to work with people again, without MASSIVE psychological work being done.

Ottawa
Firefighter fired, captain suspended after city investigation into alleged hate crime

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/ottawa-firefighters-investigation-discipline-1.6787293

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The investigation stemmed from an incident at Station 47 on Greenbank Road in Barrhaven last September, where a firefighter allegedly assaulted a non-binary rookie firefighter, choking them, lifting them from the ground and hurling gender-based slurs during the altercation, sources previously told CBC.

Sources also said the rookie, who CBC is not naming, went to the hospital the next day after allegedly not being permitted to immediately seek medical attention.
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And:

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Police are calling it a hate crime and have charged Einagel, 37, with assault for choking, aggravated assault, criminal harassment and forcible seizure for allegedly grabbing the rookie from behind.

Wright, 59, was the supervising captain at the station and responsible for all personnel there at the time. He is charged with criminal negligence causing bodily harm for failing to provide the rookie with "medical attention."
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#FuckHomophobia #FuckTransphobia #HateCrime #FashWatchCanada #WorkplaceViolence

One in three U.S. public health workers reported feeling threatened while on the job during the COVID-19 pandemic according to a study of over 26,000 professionals conducted between March 2020 and April 2021. Experiencing any type of workplace violence was significantly associated with an increased likelihood of reporting depression symptoms, anxiety, post-traumatic stress disorder, or suicidal ideation.

https://www.elsevier.com/about/press-releases/research-and-journals/one-in-three-us-public-health-workers-reports-feeling-threatened-by-the-public-while-on-the-job-during-the-covid-19-pandemic

Study: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.amepre.2022.10.004

#PublicHealth #COVID19 #Pandemic #HealthcareWorkers #Healthcare #Health #Science #Violence #WorkplaceViolence #MentalHealth

#BlackMastadon How do you deal with physically aggressive white co-workers? Is it worth reporting or will it burn bridges, bridges that I desperately need? I left the job without notice due to fear and lack of safety. Has anyone else had a similar experience? What can we do as BIPOC to stay safe at work and manager physical confrontation? #BIPOC #Workplaceviolence #bullying #Trauma

Orgs: We have zero tolerance on Workplace Violence

Also Orgs: Except that person, don’t pay them any mind, that’s how it is, they didn’t mean it, they won’t change, they’re so good at what they do, just be resilient

#Workplace #Leadership #Responsibility #Accountability #WorkplaceViolence #Bullying #Aggression #Nursing #Life #Leaders #Oppression #Tolerance #Enabling #Behaviors #Psychology #Sociology

If you are suffering any level of #DomesticAbuse or #WorkplaceViolence , once that behaviour becomes commonplace, it will escalate. You need to take action to stop it, or escape that environment before it is too late. #WhiteRibbonDay

Jacqueline Pokuaa was originally from Ghana. June Onkundi hailed from Kenya.

Imagine moving halfway across the world to pursue a better life as a nurse and meeting this end...

https://blog.nurserecruiter.com/stop-the-violence-against-nurses/

#Nurses #WorkplaceViolence #ImmigrantLife #EndNurseAbuse

Referenced link: https://phys.org/news/2022-09-convenience-store-robberies-dynamics-workplace-violence.html
Discuss on https://discu.eu/q/https://phys.org/news/2022-09-convenience-store-robberies-dynamics-workplace-violence.html

Originally posted by Phys.org / @physorg_com@twitter.com: https://twitter.com/physorg_com/status/1573054289492197376#m

Convenience-store robberies: Understanding the dynamics of #workplaceviolence can improve #employee health and safety @PNASNews https://pnas.org/doi/full/10.1073/pnas.2200026119 https://phys.org/news/2022-09-convenience-store-robberies-dynamics-workplace-violence.html

2 unions call on Ontario government to step up protection of hospital workers | CBC News https://bit.ly/3nsYKX1 #SEIU #CUPE #workplaceViolence #Hospitals #onpoli