Please keep on posting such quality posts as this is a rare thing to find these days. One of the problems found was that risk assessments tended to focus on physical risks, ignoring environmental risks such as stress, bullying and harassment, which were high on the list of problems reported by women, and gender specific issues such as health and safety for new and expectant mothers. Traditional employment patterns have resulted in the perception that jobs that are often seen as 'women's' jobs are seen as safe environments and thus have less attention paid to them in health & safety terms
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Please keep on posting such quality posts as this is a rare thing to find these days. One of the problems found was that risk assessments tended to focus on physical risks, ignoring environmental risks such as stress, bullying and harassment, which were high on the list of problems reported by women, and gender specific issues such as health and safety for new and expectant mothers. Traditional employment patterns have resulted in the perception that jobs that are often seen as 'women's' jobs are seen as safe environments and thus have less attention paid to them in health & safety terms
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