Council Staff Report Almost Double The Number Of Incidents In One Year

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Council Staff Report Almost Double The Number Of Incidents In One Year

The Invercargill City Council has reported an increase in hostile behaviour towards staff, with 29 cases of verbal abuse in just two months.The Risk and Assurance Committee were briefed by health safety and wellbeing manager Tash Anderson at a meeting on Tuesday.Over the past year the number of reported incidents by staff had almost doubled from 200 to close to 400, but injuries had dropped significantly, as a result of improved hazard identific…