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A crucial component of workplace safety is developing an organizational culture of safety, respect, trust, and support.

Positive organizational climates can reduce the risk of grievances and enhance bystander reporting when concerns are identified.

Organizational climate reflects how people perceive and describe their working environment, including employees' attitudes, feelings, and recurring patterns of behavior.

Cultivating a positive climate of safety and support in an organization is important to ensure employees feel valued.

Employees who feel respected and supported are less likely to view violence as an appropriate means of addressing their issues and may hold fewer and/or less intense grievances against their colleagues.

Positive work climates can also have other important outcomes, including enhanced employee well-being, resilience, and productivity, as well as improved positive and supportive interactions with customers, clients, patients, and visitors.

We tell employees not to wait for something to happen to say something, but to proactively engage in resources.

STEP 7: PROMOTE A SAFE AND SUPPORTIVE ORGANIZATIONAL CLIMATE

Organizational climate also plays a vital role in preventing targeted workplace violence.

For patients to be first, we need to have a healthy workforce to care for people.

If employees are not healthy themselves, then they won’t have a vested interest in our mission or the capacity to care for others.

If someone isn’t feeling well due to finances, stress, depression, we have resources to offer our employees, including five free counseling sessions for them to use as they need.