{"id":12072,"date":"2025-10-07T18:24:33","date_gmt":"2025-10-07T18:24:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/psw.circleofcare.com\/?p=12072"},"modified":"2025-10-07T18:24:33","modified_gmt":"2025-10-07T18:24:33","slug":"safety-spotlight-workplace-violence-and-harassment-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/psw.circleofcare.com\/index.php\/2025\/10\/07\/safety-spotlight-workplace-violence-and-harassment-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Safety Spotlight: Workplace Violence and Harassment"},"content":{"rendered":"

Circle of Care is committed to the prevention of\u00a0workplace violence and harassment. We\u00a0strive to ensure our work environment is safe for all employees. Our Joint Health and\u00a0Safety Committee (JHSC) has determined that the hazard of\u00a0workplace violence and harassment\u00a0is\u00a0\u2018medium risk\u2019<\/span> for our community employees. As such, we have created an annual training, risk assessment and communication campaign to increase awareness of these hazards and to promote employee safety and well-being.<\/p>\n

Mandatory e-learning training on Workplace Violence and Harassment was due by September 5, 2025. If you have not completed this yet, please make arrangements to complete as soon as possible.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

Click here for step-by-step instructions on how to access e-learning<\/a><\/div>\n

Our JHSC also tracks and ensures necessary follow up on any reports of workplace violence and\/or harassment. In the past 3 months, there have been 47 reported incidents<\/span>\u00a0involving incidents between clients and employees. We are committed to sharing these metrics with you on a quarterly basis, and encourage you to review our JHSC meeting minutes to learn more about incidents and corrective actions related to workplace violence and harassment:<\/p>\n

September 23 JHSC Meeting Minutes<\/a><\/p>\n

We would like to remind all employees, that any act of violence committed by or against anyone is unacceptable conduct that will not be tolerated.\u00a0 Every effort has been made to identify possible sources of violence and to implement procedures to control the risks. No employee, volunteer, or any other individual associated with Circle of Care shall subject any other person to workplace violence or allow or create situations that allow workplace violence to occur.\u00a0 Everyone is expected to uphold this policy and to work together to prevent workplace violence.<\/p>\n

If you encounter any situations where you are experiencing violence or harassment, whether in the community or at a client’s home, please ensure you take the proper steps to get yourself to safety, and call the office\/your CSS to report the incident.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Click here to review programs, policies\u00a0and\u00a0procedures related to\u00a0Workplace Violence and Harassment:<\/p>\n

Workplace Violence and Harassment<\/strong>\u00a0Program<\/a>
\nSafe Operating Procedure \u2013 Working Alone<\/a>
\nSafe Operating Procedure \u2013 Client Aggression<\/a>
\nWorkplace Violence<\/strong>\u00a0Policy<\/a>
\nWorkplace Harassment<\/strong>\u00a0Policy<\/a><\/p>\n

Over the next several weeks, we will share tips, resources\u00a0and\u00a0strategies to increase employee awareness of hazards that can contribute to\u00a0Workplace Violence and Harassment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This is a memo to all employees about Workplace Violence & Harassment and how we can prevent this in the workplace. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":10667,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,4],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-12072","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-memos","8":"category-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/psw.circleofcare.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12072","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/psw.circleofcare.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/psw.circleofcare.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/psw.circleofcare.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/psw.circleofcare.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12072"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/psw.circleofcare.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12072\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12073,"href":"https:\/\/psw.circleofcare.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12072\/revisions\/12073"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/psw.circleofcare.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10667"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/psw.circleofcare.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12072"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/psw.circleofcare.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12072"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/psw.circleofcare.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12072"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}