Risk of violence at work ‘low’, says HSE

Now then Alan, are we talking about those prosecuted to a claim, those reported or those unreported everyday incidents of workplace "approval deprivation" and/or stressful abuse that insidiously grinds down most teachers ?

The limited social skills of the children are accepted and of course they are going to use terms of endearment in ordinary conversation to teaching staff yet are carefull to ensure the flying objects are not actually directed too close to their teacher as they do understand the consequences of making contact.

It is the management that constantly undermine their staff by making sure that they are aware that applications for support or complaints are not welcome and that "if you cant stand the heat in the kitchen you must be inadiquate and should get out" making it quite clear that they are not interested in their monkeys and if you want to keep your job shut up.....

No wonder it is percieved by teachers that there is no point in seeking support or attempt to participate in continual improvement schemes as only gonna crash and burn trying to keep up with ever changing tokenistic numpty schemes sooner rather than later .......

In either case for those that do crash they may only look forward to a period of paid leave and a conditional gagging order in return for any compo / damages as for sure the LEA will ensure it doesn't reach court even if it makes it into the local press.

All they really want to do is educate but thats not what teaching is all about today where tick-boxes are the only objects of a now very limited national curriculum - doh .

No suprise that UK has 17.5 functional illiterate or nearly 30% of population out there confused, uneducated and socio-economically excluded...

Police Army etc were they included.

Barry

I represent teachers who are abused at work, the numbers are very small each year and grossly exaggerated by the press, thankfully. Your friendly lawyer (nice to speak again Nigel.)

No mention of teachers there then nor the significant risk of debilitating harm due to insidiously underminning even genericly anti-social relationships where majority of communications maybe charactorised as "approval deprevation".

Stress, fatigue and performance anxiety manifesting in presenteeism is going to the biggest workplace hazard to occupational health over the next decade and whether or not the "Employers Charter" or forthcoming EU Oc-health regs are diluted instead of guilded the NHS is not wrong to predict a four-fold increase in the cost of mental health by 2026.

The sums are not rocket science where it is already known that 1 in 4 will experience a well-being or mental health impairment and that they will, no doubt, be increasingly founded in workplace stressors exacerbated by screen fatigue recognised in 58% of users. (HSE RR561 2007)

Frontline workers are not the only ones to suffer verbals when upto around 60% of employees are reporting that they have either witnessed or been the subject of bullying in the last six months..........

The cascadding pressures and demands 'virtically and horizontally' applicable are leaving too few unaffected by increasingly toxic workplace climates that are heating up in tandom with Global Warming and equally need addressing sooner rather than latter and denial ain't not gonna help.