Health Care Workers Facing Workplace Harassment

Support workers and nurses in the health care field have reported they are facing unprecedented levels of violence in their workplaces, and they are blaming both the hospitals they work for and the government at large. Alberta health care workers can doubtless sympathize with the plight of Ontario workers as they demand change from the ministry of labour to limit the harassment and violence they experience daily. These workers reportedly face the second-highest rate of workplace injuries in the country. 

A 2014 study conducted by the Canadian Institute for Health Information found that nearly half of all health care workers would be or had been assaulted by a patient at some point in their careers. Of 54 workers polled, 53 said they had experienced some level of violence carried out by patients. Worse, they identified these incidences as being "systematically accepted"