A woman hit by a flying shovel, a staff member who claimed they were headbutted by a colleague, and soiled nappies dumped in a library were among the accidents and incidents logged by Dublin City Council last year. The council said it received 337 formal complaint forms from staff in 2023 outlining dangerous incidents or hazards in the workplace. The same month, a council employee reported an incident where they were driving a work vehicle and “two drunks tried to open [the] passenger door”. The tenant behaving aggressively towards meJust a day before, another staff member said they had left a local authority home as the tenant was being “very aggressive towards [their] daughter”. ​Violence from members of the public was reported too with one employee saying they were “punched in the right side of the head”, while another staff member received several “threatening voicemails”.

Source: Irish Independent May 12, 2024 14:48 UTC