Effectiveness of taxicab security equipment in reducing driver homicide rates

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• Personal Author:
  Amandus HE ; Damadi P ; Hendricks SA ; Konda S ; Menendez CKC ; Wu N
• Description:
  Background: Taxicab drivers historically have had one of the highest work-related homicide rates of any occupation. In 2010 the taxicab driver homicide rate was 7.4 per 100,000 drivers, compared to the overall rate of 0.37 per 100,000 workers. Purpose: Evaluate the effectiveness of taxicab security cameras and partitions on citywide taxicab driver homicide rates. Methods: Taxicab driver homicide rates were compared in 26 major cities in the U.S. licensing taxicabs with security cameras (n=8); bullet-resistant partitions (n=7); and cities where taxicabs were not equipped with either security cameras or partitions (n=11). News clippings of taxicab driver homicides and the number of licensed taxicabs by city were used to construct taxicab driver homicide rates spanning 15 years (1996-2010). Generalized estimating equations were constructed to model the Poisson-distributed homicide rates on city-specific safety equipment installation status, controlling for city homicide rate and the concurrent decline of homicide rates over time. Data were analyzed in 2012. Results: Cities with cameras experienced a threefold reduction in taxicab driver homicides compared with control cities (RR=0.27; 95% CI=0.12, 0.61; p=0.002). There was no difference in homicide rates for cities with partitions compared with control cities (RR=1.15; 95% CI=0.80, 1.64; p=0.575). Conclusions: Municipal ordinances and company policies mandating security cameras appear to be highly effective in reducing taxicab driver deaths due to workplace violence. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Automobiles Mortality Occupational Health Safety Safety Management Transportation
• Keywords:
  Drivers Monitoring-systems Mortality-data Mortality-rates Motor-vehicles Photographic-equipment Safety-equipment Safety-measures Safety-practices Safety-programs Service-industries Surveillance Transportation-workers Work-operations Worker-health

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• ISSN:
  0749-3797
• Document Type:
  Text
• Genre:
  Journal Article
• Place as Subject:
  OSHA Region 3 ; West Virginia
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Division:
  DSR - Division of Safety Research
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  1-8
• Volume:
  45
• Issue:
  1
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20042730
• Citation:
  Am J Prev Med 2013 Jul; 45(1):1-8
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  2013
• NORA Priority Area:
  Transportation, Warehousing and Utilities
• Peer Reviewed:
  True
• Source Full Name:
  American Journal of Preventive Medicine
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:b50f6c1d5f3c561ad28204bf15e3b6444b5df51c084db7c77f2e61e7ddc3035f66acfc1813040033503585d96263433137ebbde73a1b321826fff5bc85977370
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/194864/cdc_194864_DS1.pdf
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