Human Resources 101

According to StatsCan, 2004 saw over 356,000 incidents of workplace violence reported. One third of those took place in a social assistance or health care facility. And, in case you think employees are beating up each other, the majority of incidents were not committed by co-workers but rather a member of the public, a client, patient, customer or former co-worker,

The workplace proved to be a dangerous place for hundreds of thousands of Canadians in 2004, according to the latest data from Statistics Canada.

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