A Physical Dispute With A Colleague
Machinery, chemicals or animals are not the only threat you have at work when it comes to dangerous surroundings and fighting for space.
It’s sad but true. People become injured at work due to a fight involving either themselves or just being in the way when a fight breaks out.
Two students in a collage were happily working away in different classes when one of them needed to go to the toilet. They both were attending a construction course and the toilets were situated in the brick shop area.
As student A walked by he accidentally tripped on a brick and bumped into student B. The trip may be considered the accident but this is not where the physical damage came from.
Student A said sorry and was continuing on his way when student B began to shout abuse because his wall he was building was now out of shape due to the slight accidental shove it had endured.
Student A responded with abuse too and then student B attempted to punch Student A in the head. Unfortunately he had forgotten that he had his trowel in his hand. This left a perfect and straight cut down the centre of the forehead of Student A
Before it could escalate, the staff were involved and later that day the injured party returned from the hospital, the boy’s said sorry, got on fine and left as best friends at the end of the year.
Truth is, people will fall out at work, little accounts of sabotage on each other’s lunch or workloads will be carried out and sometimes, accidents happen as a result or they end up having a proper fist fight and then people really do get hurt.
When these things happen and people are hurt, the person responsible will always say ‘….it was an accident, I didn’t mean to do that, I only meant to do this…..’ and so on.
There are laws that should prevent people fighting in the work place but when us human beings are very angry, we tend to forget or even ignore the rules altogether. Facing the consequences later is never nice though so we need to make sure that this does not happen.
Many work places will hold regular meetings and have anti bullying procedures in place to help dissolve bed situations before they get out of hand but, we cannot control the universe all of the time so, take care while at work not to argue or bee around people who are looking for a fight. If there is trouble brewing, go to the boss, they should know how to deal with it before it goes too far.
The types of injuries obtained from these disagreements will consist mostly of bruises, cuts and maybe minor breaks in the hands or the face but they can be more serious and may need hospital treatment. If you worked in a prison, two inmates fighting could be far more serious. You would stand a higher risk of being hurt and knives may be being used.
Always take car whatever you do for a living.
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