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Grounding the process in the context
A violence prevention process also serves a preventive purpose with regard to worker health and safety. In other words, it helps tackle two problems at once because it acts on the same underlying risk factors. Moreover, the COs project showed that the process had an impact not only on reducing violence but also on interpersonal relationships and workplace dynamics.
THE MANY IMPACTS OF THE INTERVENTIONS
In addition to combining the violence prevention process with the prevention-related occupational health and safety (OHS) efforts already under way, grounding the process can mean including it in the organization’s main orientations. For example, the violence prevention strategy can be incorporated into the organization’s strategic planning process or action plan.
One way or the other, the organization sends a clear message that it cares about its workers’ health (both physical and psychological) and well-being, and that it is committed in this regard.
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Do you already have prevention-related occupational health and safety processes under way?
The fact of combining the violence prevention process with the prevention-related OHS efforts already being made in the organization is one way of ensuring its sustainability while at the same time avoiding a duplication of efforts.