Stress and Workplace Bullying
Extreme stress can have serious and lasting psychological and physiological effects, described in more detail here. Everyone with a responsibility for management of risks to health and safety - others' and their own - needs to know that bullying is a health hazard, and so it should be addressed in any risk assessment and managed with the same diligence as one should apply to a physical hazard. Where humans are present, the risk of bullying cannot be completely eliminated, but it can be combated at source and/or replaced with less dangerous behaviour.
