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Workplace Violence Prevention

Your Experiences With Workplace Violence

Health care workers are targeted for violent assaults in the workplace more often than all workers, save for police officers.

UNAC/UHCP is starting a campaign to address workplace violence, and your stories will help us explain the issue to the community and press for solutions in our workplace.

UNAC/UHCP members and staff have testified before Cal/OSHA about our experiences with violent assault, and made YouTube videos discussing those experiences, to help drive the issue home for regulators.

Everything you tell us here will remain confidential, unless you give us permission to use it.

We ask for your name and email so that we can follow up with you as needed. We will not use your stories or identifying information without your permission.

1.Your Classification
2.How frequently would you say violent assaults occur in your workplace?
3.Which of the following workplace violence acts have you personally experienced from patients or their visitors?
4.Over the course of your career, how many violent assaults have you experienced in the workplace?
5.Please describe specific experiences you've had with violent assault in your workplace, or the threat of violent assault. Where did they happen? When? Did they happen to you, or someone else? Who committed the act of violence: a patient, patient's family member, coworker?
6.Have you or any of your coworkers reported an assault in the workplace to your manager or hospital administration?
7.Does your hospital or clinic have a workplace violence policy or process for reporting violent incidents and escalating the report to senior management?
8.If you have a plan, do you consider it to be effective?
9.What are some of the barriers to filing an internal report about workplace violence?
10.Have you suffered lasting consequences from these assaults, emotional or physical or both? If so, please describe them.
11.Have any of your coworkers suffered lasting consequences from violent assault, emotional or physical or both? If so, please describe them.
12.Which of the following do you think is a significant contributor to workplace violence? Please check 2-4 from the list below?