This year, National Personal Safety Day focuses on violence, abuse and harassment against frontline workers. Our 2025 report ‘Changing Shifts, Changing Safety: Tackling workplace violence across the retail, transport, healthcare and hospitality sectors’ found that women, disabled workers, LGBTQ+ staff, and Black and minoritised workers were found to experience disproportionately higher levels of harm.

The Suzy Lamplugh Trust's research supported by Peoplesafe showed that:

• 1 in 5 workers felt at risk of violence at work
• Nearly a third reported experiencing an incident in the past year
• Women were approximately 8 times more likely than men to experience sexual harassment and/or assault at work
• 30% of workers said that they had not received any training or resources from their employer on preventing or managing violence or harassment

You can download the full report here:

Changing Shifts, Changing Safety: Tackling workplace violence across the retail, transport, healthcare and hospitality sectors

Read the press release here. For any press enquiries, please contact [email protected]. For further information on the work of the Suzy Lamplugh Trust, please contact [email protected].