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  • North Bay Nugget Fri Apr 1 2016
  • A poll of North Bay Regional Health Centre staffthat measures incidents of workplace violence will be released this morning. The poll is the pilot for a provincial survey the Ontario Council of Hospital Unions (OCHU)/CUPE plans to conduct with its 30,000 hospital and long-term care members across Ontario.
  • Government data shows that health-care staff are the most likely to experience work-related violence and the incidents are rising. The poll conducted earlier this week asks how many incidents of physical and non-physical violence staffexperienced in the workplace in the past year.
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  • Several of the questions focus on how many incidents workers have reported and whether they are afraid of reprisal if they speak up at work about violent incidents. The poll also asked how many times in the last year staffhave experienced sexual harassment or assault either non-physical or physical. "The results of personal experience with violence are very disturbing and suggest a profoundly unsafe environment," says OCHU
  • president Michael Hurley. "But for us, the most unexpected and unsettling finding is the measure of sexual harassment or sexual assault. "The number of staffafraid of reprisal if they report violence in North Bay is also very concerning, if not unexpected, given the firing of a nurse who raised the issue in January."
  • In January, nurse Sue McIntyre was fired by the health centre after she spoke on a workplace violence panel. In her comments, McIntyre had zeroed in on the issue of reprisal against health care staffwho report. Others on the panel stressed that there are fewer staffto deal with more aggressive
  • patients. Ontario has the lowest hospital and long-term care staffing levels in the country. Delegates attending the conference asked the provincial health minister to take the following actions: Enact legislation, to protect health-care workers from violence Provide health care workers with the same rights to refuse unsafe work as other workers in the public sector Charge patients and family members under the Criminal Code who are violent with staff Fund and staffOntario hospitals and long-term care facilities to the Canadian average.
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  • Apr 1, 2016
  • NORTH BAY, ON — A poll of North Bay Regional Health Centre (NBRHC) staff conducted earlier this week shows “staggeringly high rates of workplace violence with virtually no resolve from the hospital,” said Michael Hurley president of the Ontario Council of Hospital Unions (OCHU) that commissioned the poll. What’s more said Hurley at a media conference to release the poll findings, “it’s a grim and concerning reality that despite the fact incidents are happening almost daily, workers fear reprisal and incidents are under-reported”.
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