Background on Workplace Violence
This term refers to a pattern of behaviour that is observable over time, usually involving specific power dynamics between the victim(s) and the perpetrator(s).
What is Abuse?
This term refers to a mental barrier that affects a survivor's presentation, disclosure, and recollection of their experience of violence/abuse. There's no universal definition for it, but it often shows up in "fight," "flight," or "freeze."
What is Trauma?
What is the Bystander Effect?
The activity that we completed at the start of the prevention section, where we discussed expectations of traditional gender roles and their impacts.
What are the Gender Boxes?
This term refers to actions or workplace cultures that involve harmful and offensive behaviours/words directed at a specific person or group of people, which often results in someone feeling unsafe, humiliated, belittled, and/or violated.
What is Hazing?
Different than sympathy, Brené Brown's animated short video discusses how this approach/response focuses instead on being present with someone in the moment, not trying to "silver lining" it.
What is Empathy?
The model for bystander intervention, including methods for successfully and safely intervening if and when harm is happening.
What are the 5 Ds?
This industry has been shown to have alarmingly high rates of suicide, which is a large part of the reason we focus on the skilled trades for these discussions.
What is Construction?
Coined by Kimberlé Crenshaw, this term helps us understand how our social identities interact with social systems of oppression to produce unique experiences.
What is Intersectionality?
This acronym gives people a quick reminder of how to respond to a disclosure, focusing on validation, asking how you can support, and making sure that we respond without judgment.
What is TALK?
One of the main reasons why the bystander effect takes place, this process refers to how seeing others not respond might make us fear judgment, ridicule, or violence.
Hint: the elevator video!
What is the Social Pressure to Behave Correctly?
This term refers to workspaces that are traditionally male-dominated and are characterized by specific expectations that uphold rigid views of masculinity.
What are Hypermasculine Workplaces?
Depicted in the training as a pyramid, this term helps us understand how violence can escalate from the foundations of sexism, racism, homophobia, transphobia, inappropriate jokes, harassment, etc.
What is the Spectrum of Violence?
What is Limits to Confidentiality?
One of the main methods of bystander intervention, this approach should only be used when other forms of intervention have not been successful...or we might be ethically obligated to do it.
What is Document?
This term was (re-)introduced later in the training, where we discussed ways of reimagining how we respond to issues of abuse, violence, and harassment, and how it can be about community care rather than merely punishment.
What is Accountability?
According to most recent research, __ in __ workers have experienced violence or harassment in Canada.
What is 7 in 10?
Hint: it's also a popular side/snack at a fast food restaurant!
What is FRIES?
This term was depicted in the training as half a wheel to help us understand how our intervention might result in only incremental change, but that managing our expectations can make sure our actions are still meaningful and important.
What is the Spectrum of Allyship?
When we discussed inclusive workplaces and their positive impacts, a study demonstrated that having this term/approach integrated more readily into the workplace resulted in more profit, more productivity, more creativity, and improved adaptability to problems.
What is Diversity?