Common use of Violence Clause in Contracts

Violence. The Hospital and the Union agree that they have a shared goal of a workplace free of violence. To that end, the local parties will determine appropriate solutions to promote health and safety in workplaces, including, but not limited to: ▪ Violence in the Workplace (include Verbal Abuse) ▪ In particular, the local parties will consider appropriate measures to address violence in the workplace, which may include, among other remedies: i. Electronic and visual flagging; ii. Properly trained security who can de-escalate, immobilize and detain/restrain; iii. Appropriate personal alarms; iv. Organizational wide risk assessments assessing environment, risk from patient population, acuity, communication, and work flow and individual client assessments; and, v. Training in de-escalation, “break-free” and safe immobilization/detainment/ restraint “Workplace violence” means, (a) The exercise of physical force by a person against a worker, in a workplace, that causes or could cause physical injury to the worker, (b) An attempt to exercise physical force against the worker, in a workplace, that could cause physical injury to the worker, and (c) A statement or behaviour that it is reasonable for a worker to interpret as a threat to exercise physical force against the worker, in a workplace, that could cause physical injury to the worker.