Workplace Violence
Workplaces can also be a setting for violence. Potential types of violence include:
- Collective violence (the harmful act of groups who create policies or conditions to harm other groups)
- Forced labor
- Workers may become aggressive due to job stress, lack of social support, or lack of rewards for work. This aggression can be physical or verbal.
- Physical or verbal aggression by shoppers, clients, or patients. This is sometimes due to high job demands, long waits, poor safety climates, poor worker-client relationships).[]
- Sexual assault and harassment []
- Workplace suicide[]
- Microaggressions based on racialized or other identities
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