This primarily concerns confrontations involving pushing, hitting or kicking, but spitting and throwing objects also occur frequently. More than a third of the victims indicate that they suffered physical injury, and a quarter said they suffered psychological injury.
The aggression occurs in all sectors, ACV Public Services emphasizes. So not only among the police and in public transport, but also, for example, among people from green services, counter clerks, and VDAB and OCMW employees.
In addition, it appears that three-quarters of those surveyed had already been confronted with verbal aggression. This concerns, for example, swearing, insults, discriminatory comments and intimidation. And 14 percent do not feel safe at work at all or most of the time.