Can Behavior-Based Safety and the New View Work Together?
One of the most frequent targets of critique from New View advocates is BBS. It’s often portrayed as outdated, punitive, and misaligned with modern safety thinking. But is that a fair assessment? Or are we throwing out the baby with the bathwater? As someone who has practiced New View principles long before they had a […]
How Can Thoughtful Emergency Department Design Reduce the Risk of Violence and Improve Staff Wellbeing?
Violence in healthcare settings, especially within hospital emergency departments (EDs), has reached alarming levels worldwide, contributing to physical harm, psychological distress, increased staff turnover, and ballooning organisational costs. While aggression in EDs is often framed as a behavioural or cultural issue, growing evidence suggests that the built environment may play a decisive role in either […]
Are frontline healthcare workers at risk of violence—no matter where they practise?
Evidence from two cross-sectional surveys in under-resourced public hospitals shows that aggression toward doctors and nurses is not confined to conflict zones. Whether working amid economic hardship or in a metropolitan city, caregivers face physical assaults, verbal abuse and threats on a shocking scale. For HR and Occupational Health & Safety (OHS) leaders, the question […]
Occupational Violence and Aggression: Why Work-Related Violence is a Systems Problem
Workplace aggression isn’t rare, and it’s rising. Whether it’s a nurse in Australia, a caseworker in London, or a parking officer in the U.S., workers are facing a surge in occupational violence and aggression (OVA), or as it’s more broadly known internationally, work-related violence. But here’s the issue: most of our responses are stuck at […]