In the 2010 TUC survey of safety representatives, bullying and harassment was the second most common health and safety hazard identified by reps. Nearly twice as many reps cited bullying and harassment as a top five concern compared with the equivalent response from the 2008 survey. Bullying is more prevalent in the public than the private sector, and the larger the workplace, the more likely bullying is to be a problem.
A survey carried out in 2006 by the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD) in association with MORI and Kingston Business School also found that workplace bullying is widespread. It identified that one fifth of all UK employees had experienced some form of bullying or harassment over the prior 2 years.
In a 2009 Unison survey one in three young women said they were being bullied at work.
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