A health system with a culture of quality creates the conditions for staff to thrive, and ensuring their safety is one element of this. By addressing violence in our hospitals, we’ll be creating safer environments for our workers and improving patient care.

Key resources

• The Workplace Violence Prevention in Health Care Leadership Table’s report, Preventing workplace violence in the health care sector, and associated recommendations and tools
• The Public Services Health and Safety Association’s Workplace Violence Prevention website.
  • Specifically focus on the five Violence, Aggression and Responsive Behaviours tools addressing workplace violence risk assessment, individual client risk assessment, flagging, security, and personal safety response system and the new tools released in 2019.
• Use the Workplace Violence Prevention in Health Care Leadership Table’s Workplace Violence Prevention Checklist as a roadmap to adopting leading practices.