Perspectives on Legal Strategies to Prevent Workplace Violence

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• Personal Author:
  Cody E ; Jenkins L ; Lipscomb HJ ; Silverstein B ; Slavin TJ
• Description:
  Workplace violence is a continuing problem in the United States, accounting for approximately 1,000 deaths each year and for more than 1.5 million incidents of nonfatal injuries. State and federal agencies have published guidelines for preventing workplace assaults, but there is a need for a strong research agenda to address the effectiveness of intervention strategies. After an overview, this article provides a discussion of workplace violence from three perspectives. One section discusses the process used in a manufacturing setting to install a workplace violence prevention program. A second section provides insight into the processes used to fully implement a workplace violence prevention program in a health care setting. A final section provides insight to the processes brought to bear in one state to mandate prevention of workplace violence in the health care setting. There is a critical need to evaluate alternative strategies to address workplace violence, to make the findings available to legislative and executive branches of government, and to implement effective strategies to counter violence in the workplace. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Health Care Facilities Workforce And Services Health Personnel Occupational Health Safety
• Keywords:
  Health-care Health-care-facilities Health-care-personnel
• ISSN:
  1073-1105
• Document Type:
  Text
• Funding:
  Grant
• Genre:
  Journal Article
• Place as Subject:
  Maryland ; North Carolina ; OSHA Region 10 ; OSHA Region 3 ; OSHA Region 4 ; Washington ; West Virginia
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  166-172
• Volume:
  30
• Issue:
  3
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20028808
• Citation:
  J Law Med Ethics 2002 Fall; 30(3):166-172
• Contact Point Address:
  University of Maryland, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  2002
• NORA Priority Area:
  Research Tools and Approaches: Health Services Research
• Performing Organization:
  Duke University Medical Center, Department of Community and Family Medicine, Division of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, Durham, North Carolina
• Peer Reviewed:
  True
• Start Date:
  19950930
• Source Full Name:
  The Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics
• End Date:
  19980929
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:31046fb5afdb417713dc5e4e07669ef3464c9b93ba052ce8f1228b8726150a0c632b09c85ff648f4539a38c9feef46c8482e71f4b4d2e55775579ff6f8674770
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/189926/cdc_189926_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 9.02 MB ]