Physical Workplace Health and Safety Hazards - Case Review

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Physical workplace health and safety hazards
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Physical workplace health and safety hazards
Question: The requirements and provisions an employer and employee must take in Nova
Scotia to ensure that workplace violence and workplace harassment are not tolerated.
Workplace violence for a long time has not been taken seriously as a safety and health issue.
In many cases, those being subjected to violence have do not seek redress or are not taken
into consideration. As such, policies set to prevent workplace violence do not seem to work.
Employers and managers make the situation worse by bulling the employees. On the other
hand, disciplinary committees do not punish the perpetrators of workplace violence
because they are the “untouchables’. Unfortunately, workplace violence contributes to a
lot of deaths being recorded among employees while at work, (Ross, 2017, 15).
The article written by Melanie Warner and Sarah Boyle puts workplace violence into
perspective after their summative article “The price of Workplace Bullying”. In this scenario,
the Ontario Court of Appeal shed light on the issue of workplace bullying by heavily fining
Jason Pinnock after he continuously bullied and harassed Meredith Boucher. Initially,
Boucher was awarded damages amounting to $1, 450,000. It is right to state that this
remedy came in a little bit too late especially after Boucher made failed attempts of
reporting Pinnock to Wal- Mart Management, (Pranglnell et al., 2018, 87). As such, Pinnock
continuously abused her verbally and physically to the extent that she suffers from
insomnia, loss of appetite and weight loss. To top it all, she resigned.
From this scenario, it is evident that employees face challenges while performing their
duties. The aspect of workplace violence is regulated by Violence in the Workplace