It is a perennial ad on the TV.
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And that is, you shouldn’t have to worry about whether the loved one you kiss goodbye in the morning will actually return again that night.
The absolute importance of workplace safety is obviously the key message, aimed as it is at both workers and their employers.
It is hard not to feel affected by such to-the-point campaigns, given how easily you can transplant yourself into the picture – of wives, husbands, kids in shock over a workplace accident.
And yet for some workers it does not matter how much care is taken or how alert and professional they are, matters so beyond their own control crop up.
That is the case if you are a health professional, especially on the front-line of an emergency ward where the unpredictability of some patients and the people they’re with can create a flash-point.
The causes of such violent behaviour might be down to mental illness, to the impact of illicit drugs, to the side-effects of alcohol or simply because some people are naturally aggressive and confrontational.
That leaves us with a situation that in some hospitals puts medical staff at a daily risk of being attacked.
That has been witnessed to devastating effect at two Melbourne hospitals with two doctors attacked, the most recent case being a surgeon critically hurt after a one-punch assault at the Box Hill Hospital.
It has been commonplace too to hear of cases where paramedics are attacked when they’re trying to attend to someone following an emergency call. The Border, too, it seems is not immune from such atrocious behaviour. That has been made abundantly clear in the latest figures released by Albury Wodonga Health.
This reveals how there were 165 incidents in 2015-16 where one of its workers was subjected to totally inappropriate behaviour such as abuse, threats or even assaults, when all these staff wanted to do was to be able to use their expertise to help care for others.
It is atrocious that there are people who somehow think they have a right to behave in such a way. Yes, there are incidents where matters are beyond someone’s control, often because of a mental health issue or perhaps because of the behaviour created by using methamphetamine.
But that doesn’t mean this should be tolerated. No one should have to work with the worry that something like this might happen.