Violence and Respect in the Workplace Sample Clauses

Violence and Respect in the Workplace. The parties recognize that it is important to provide an environment that is properly secure for all those who receive care or work in health care. A safe environment is important for staff and contributes to providing the highest possible standard of care. Staff should expect to work in, and residents should expect to be treated in an environment where the risk of violence is minimized.

Violence and Respect in the Workplace. The parties recognize that it is important to provide a secure environment for all employees. A safe environment is important for staff and contributes to providing the highest possible standard of care. Staff should expect to work in an environment where the risk of violence is minimized. The parties are committed to promoting a work environment in which all those who enter the facility will conduct themselves in a civil, respectful, and cooperative manner. The Employer will publish a clear policy for promoting and maintaining a working environment in which all persons are treated with respect and dignity. These policies regarding expectations and consequences of inappropriate behaviour, aggression and violence will be accessible to staff.

Violence and Respect in the Workplace. (a) The parties recognize that it is important to provide an environment that is properly secure for all those who receive care or work in health care. A safe environment is important for staff and contributes to providing the highest possible standard of care. Staff should expect to work in, and residents should expect to be treated in an environment where the risk of violence is minimized. Violence means the attempted or actual exercise by a person of any physical force so as to cause injury to a worker, and includes any threatening statement or behavior which gives a worker reasonable cause to believe that s/he is at risk of injury. policies, the duty to respond to incidents and to instruct workers are based on the recognition of violence in the workplace as an occupational hazard. This hazard is to be addressed by the occupational health and safety program following the same procedures required by the Occupational Health and Safety Regulations that address other workplace hazards.

Violence and Respect in the Workplace. (a) The parties recognize that it is important to provide an environment that is properly secure for all those who receive care or work in health care. A safe environment is important for staff and contributes to providing the highest possible standard of care. Staff should expect to work in, and residents should expect to be treated in an environment where the risk of violence is minimized. Violence means the attempted or actual exercise by a person of any physical force so as to cause injury to a worker, and includes any threatening statement or behavior which gives a worker reasonable cause to believe that s/he is at risk of injury. The requirements for risk assessment, procedures and policies, the duty to respond to incidents and to instruct workers are based on the recognition of violence in the workplace as an occupational hazard. This hazard is to be addressed by the occupational health and safety program following the same procedures required by the Occupational Health and Safety Regulations that address other workplace hazards. (b) Respectful workplace (c) Support to ensure respectful conduct means, coaching, in- service training and/or internal or external expert intervention designed to bring dispute resolution skill and respectful workplace knowledge to the workplace. (d) Bullying: Bullying is any repeated or systematic behaviour – physical, verbal or psychological including shunning – which would be seen by a reasonable person as intending to belittle, intimidate, coerce or isolate another person.