FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Silicon Valley, CA – June 17, 2021 – A LinkedIn poll conducted by TAL Global, an international…
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Some may think that workplace violence happens only in larger organizations or, as we have seen on the news, in…
The May 26th San Jose shootings left 10 people dead as of this writing, including the gunman. Additionally, several people…
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A recent article in Security Magazine, titled “Patients Are People First”, starts with a grim statement: “Healthcare is one of the most violent professions in the private sector – the number of violent events in the healthcare workplace is on par with law enforcement and corrections.” According to Ryan Weber, the article’s writer, one of the causes of this spike in violence at healthcare facilities is the shift towards a focus on patient satisfaction, and the view of patients as customers, leading to a situation where: “… caretakers often forgo their own safety to produce results, creating a more unsafe work environment and potentially providing a lower level of care.”
Sexual harassment exists everywhere people come into contact, including at work. Workplace sexual harassment creates a disruptive and harmful environment that hurts the target of the act in the first place, but also damages work ethics, morale, productivity and communication, thereby impacting a company far beyond the immediate circle of the harasser and the harassed.
Workplace violence, regardless of whether it is perpetrated by a male or female attacker, yields the same result: innocent lives are taken.
