Situational Anxiety: occurs when the body's natural reaction to dangerous situations, the fight or flight response, is triggered by a violent or frightening experience. Situational anxiety is characterized by intense and debilitating fear in a specific situation. It is the body’s way to safeguard itself.
Occupational Disease: is any chronic ailment that occurs as a result of work or occupational activity. It is an aspect of occupational safety and health. An occupational disease is typically identified when it is shown that it is more prevalent in a given body of workers than in the general population, or in other worker populations.
(ex.: school employees: student threats of violence, to shoot, to cause bodily harm)
(ex.: school employees: student threats of violence, to shoot, to cause bodily harm)
Under the law of workers' compensation in many jurisdictions, there is a presumption that specific disease are caused by the worker being in the work environment and the burden is on the employer or insurer to show that the disease came about from another cause. Diseases compensated by national workers compensation authorities are often termed occupational diseases. The term work-related diseases is utilized to describe diseases of occupational origin. This term includes both compensable and non-compensable diseases that have occupational origins.
Episode of Violence: see website page, “Did You Know?”
Definitions copied from those used in teacher's legal case
(See Safer Schools website page: Teacher Intercepts GCS Students' Written Threats...)
Definitions copied from those used in teacher's legal case
(See Safer Schools website page: Teacher Intercepts GCS Students' Written Threats...)
