Emotional Safety at Work

How do bullies operate in the workplace?  They spread rumours, misrepresent accomplishments - theirs and others', take credit for others' work, they set up people to fail, they manipulate situations, they ridicule others, and at every opportunity they gossip.

More often than not their conversations are about people in a negative way rather than about ideas, concepts, and strategies.   These behaviours are usually a result of lurking insecurities and a core feeling they are not 'good enough', that their incompetence will be discovered, and that their targets are superior to them in one or several important ways. 
 
As a result of legislation in most provinces and territories, employers are required to provide workplaces that are safe from all nature of harm for all employees.   The legislation requires that this protection be comprehensive and extend beyond the physical to the psychological.  Sensitivity Training Canada is national your partner to ensure your organization’s compliance with the relevant legislation.

Sadly, many employers focus on the element of physical safety, only, with employees being afforded little protection for their emotional well-being.  

Employers continue to, very diligently, check the workplace's air quality, room temperature, and the full gamut of places and things that require a physical safety check.  However, they turn a blind eye to the bully down the hall that berates his colleagues at every turn.  And, they ignore that passive aggressive executive who seems to have a cloaked dagger that is wielded when she perceives that she has been 'crossed'. 

These personality types and others that create undue workplace stress need to be pulled into check as diligently and with as much effort as that which employers place on checking the air quality, because their behaviour is abusive -- not physically -- but emotionally.   These are violent people.  And, the legislation is meant to protect employees from them as much as it is meant to protect employees from physical harm.

Providing a workplace that is safe - in every respect - for ALL employees is simply the right thing for employers to do.

The Sensitivity Training Canada Team