INTERNATIONAL NEWS: TURKEY


Bullying At Work: Mobbing


Mobbing has become one of the hot topics in employment related disputes in the recent years. This is so particularly after publication of the Prime Ministry's Circular on Prevention of Psychological Harassment (Mobbing) in Workplaces1 (the "Circular") in 2011. The Circular defines mobbing as "a systematic emotional assault and continuing disrespectful and harmful act carried out in a workplace, against a specific employee or a group of employees, such as innuendo, rumor, public discrediting, casting out and intimidation".


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Behavioral Risk Threat Assessment - Learning To Identify At-Risk Behaviors


Firestorm has created the BeRThA Program - Behavioral Risk Threat Assessment - to assist schools and organizations in identifying, assessing, managing and responding to individuals or groups who may pose threats of violence. There are some guiding principles of the BeRThA program:


 Threat assessment must be part of an overall strategy to reduce school violence. Threat assessment by itself, absent an environment of respect, positive role models, open communication, conflict management and mediation, peer education, teachers and administrators paying attention to students’ social and emotional needs, as well as their academic needs, is unlikely to have a lasting effect on the problem of targeted school violence.


 No single person has all the skills required to conduct a behavioral threat assessment and no single person should have the sole responsibility to assess the potential risk of a student or employee.


 BeRThA provides school personnel with a wealth of information about behavioral threats as well as the availability of responding resources.


Please call Firestorm at 770-643-1114 or reach out via our CONTACT form and let us answer any questions you may have to assure your school or organization is doing everything possible to keep students, employees and your community safe.


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Preventing Workplace Sexual Assaults By Kerry Sauvé Are you a target for sexual assault? Stats Canada 2014 indicates that 1


out of 3 women and girls will be the victim of sexual assault in their lifetime. It also states that 10% of all violent crime against females are “sexual assaults with little or no injury.” Sorry but this is a Ludacris statement, and minimizes the trauma, fear and physical damage experienced by its victims. If you look closely at their statistics you‘ll start to notice some patterns.


 Number one; there are an abnormally large number of sexual assaults being perpetrated on our youth, particularly in Northern, and aboriginal communities.


 Number two; the vast majority of services tailored to victims are involved in counseling survivors, police based services, and system/court based services, not preventing the assault from occurring.


This is disturbing for a number of reasons. Please don‘t misunderstand me; we need to have these services to help sexual assault survivors deal with the trauma and violence they‘ve suffered, and to put predators in jail where they belong. The reality however is that these services while necessary really only amount to “damage control.” What is


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