Robbery-Related Injury in Convenience Stores: Estimating Lifetime Risk and Identifying High Risk Populations

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• Personal Author:
  Faulkner KA ; Hendricks SA ; Landsittel DP
• Description:
  Robbery-related injuries constitute a major risk for convenience store workers in the United States. Studies that focus on the injury outcomes associated with convenience store robbery are extremely limited in number. This is a prospective study of 1271 convenience stores in three metropolitan areas of Virginia between February 1, 1995 and September 30, 1996. The study quantifies the lifetime risk for an occupational robbery-related injury occurrence and determines the relative importance of various types of factors in the classification of high risk stores. Lifetime risk was estimated by calculating the probability in convenience stores for having one or more employee(s) sustain at least one robbery-related injury over a range of years that a store could be in operation. Results indicate that knowledge of the circumstances of the robbery are needed to maximize the identification of high risk stores. Estimated lifetime risk reaches 567 stores with an occupational robbery-related injury occurrence per 1,000 stores in operation after 45 years. This study addresses limitations of previous research by including information on clerk resistance and the number of robbers in its analysis. These two circumstantial characteristics of robbery have been previously hypothesized to be associated with robbery-related injury. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Food Handling Food Industry Longevity Occupational Exposure Occupational Health Risk Assessment Risk Factors Safety
• Keywords:
  Author Keywords: Resistance Classification Employee-exposure Employee-health Employees Grocery-stores Injuries Injury-prevention Lifespan Occupational-hazards Occupational And Risk Assessment Retail-workers Risk-analysis Risk-factors Statistical-analysis

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• ISSN:
  1080-7039
• Publisher:
  CRC Press Incorporated
• Document Type:
  Text
• Genre:
  Journal Article
• Place as Subject:
  Ohio ; OSHA Region 3 ; OSHA Region 5 ; West Virginia
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Division:
  DSR - Division of Safety Research ; EID - Education and Information Division
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Volume:
  4
• Issue:
  6
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20025310
• Citation:
  Hum Ecol Risk Assess 1998 Dec; 4(6):1391-1403
• Editor(s):
  Wassell JT; Bailer AJ
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  1999
• Peer Reviewed:
  True
• Source Full Name:
  Human and Ecological Risk Assessment
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:4cff20187d2739207b6a931b68ba2d956a80b2a9199c84805a652a917d62fcf007ce240c73c7a1396f27c9a96c5de89fd4ad1db28daf4a26cfc2e5600970dc12
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/196746/cdc_196746_DS1.pdf
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  [PDF - 237.04 KB ]