Violence and aggression at work can have a serious impact on your workers physical and mental health.
The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) has refreshed its guidance on violence at work to help you protect your workers.
It has been updated to:
- simplify the navigation to help you easily find the information you need
- remove outdated content and replace it with up-to-date practical guidance
- remind you that HSE’s definition of violence includes aggression, such as verbal abuse or threats – this can be face to face, online or over the phone
The guidance will help you assess the risks, put the right controls in place to protect workers and report incidents and learn from them.
There is specific guidance on how to support your workers after a violent incident. There are also examples drawn from typical situations.
There is separate advice for workers, which explains how they can help employers prevent violent incidents at work.
For further information please select the following link Violence and aggression at work - HSE