Conferences on Work Related Violence
A joint STUC/Scottish Executive conference Safe at Work? was held on 7 October 2005
Aims:
- to examine the issue of violence in the workplace with particular reference to women workers,
- to bring public facing sectors together to discuss how best the trade union movement could participate in the partnership, and
- to determine whether gender was a factor in some or all verbal or physical abuse meted out to workers who serve the public.
Conference presentation - 7 October 2005
A further conference was held on 23 March 2006.
The aim of the conference was to:
- Develop Guidance for Local Authorities and Duty Holders
- Explore existing initiatives which could be shared with relevant partners.
Following the March 2006 conference a survey was conducted which targeted local authority social work departments to ascertain the level of the problem in different areas of Scotland.