How to engage small retail businesses in workplace violence prevention: perspectives from small businesses and influential organizations

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• Personal Author:
  Bruening RA ; Casteel C ; Nocera M ; Peek-Asa, Corinne ; Strazza K
• Description:
  Background: Small retail businesses experience high robbery and violent crime rates leading to injury and death. Workplace violence prevention programs (WVPP) based on Crime Prevention Through Environmental Design reduce this risk, but low small business participation limits their effectiveness. Recent dissemination models of occupational safety and health information recommend collaborating with an intermediary organization to engage small businesses. Methods: Qualitative interviews with 70 small business operators and 32 representatives of organizations with small business influence were conducted to identify factors and recommendations for improving dissemination of a WVPP. Results: Both study groups recommended promoting WVPPs through personal contacts but differed on other promotion methods and the type of influential groups to target. Small business operators indicated few connections to formal business networks. Conclusions: Dissemination of WVPPs to small businesses may require models inclusive of influential individuals (e.g., respected business owners) as intermediaries to reach small businesses with few formal connections. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Morbidity Mortality Occupational Health Preventive Medicine Risk Assessment Risk Factors Safety Safety Management Small Business Violence Workplace

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• Keywords:
  Author Keywords: Workplace Violence Exposure-levels Force Health-protection Information Dissemination Injuries Intervention Model Models Morbidity-rates Mortality-rates Occupational Prevention Preventive-medicine Qualitative Research Risk-factors Safety Safety-measures Safety-practices Small-businesses Small Business Traumatic-injuries Violence-prevention Work-environment Workers

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• ISSN:
  0271-3586
• Document Type:
  Text
• Funding:
  Grant
• Genre:
  Journal Article
• Place as Subject:
  Iowa ; North Carolina ; OSHA Region 4 ; OSHA Region 7
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Volume:
  58
• Issue:
  6
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20045854
• Citation:
  Am J Ind Med 2015 Jun; 58(6):668-678
• Contact Point Address:
  Rebecca A. Bruening, MPH, University of Iowa Injury Prevention Research Center, 2190 WL (Westlawn), The University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA 52242
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  2015
• Performing Organization:
  University of North Carolina Chapel Hill
• Peer Reviewed:
  True
• Start Date:
  20110901
• Source Full Name:
  American Journal of Industrial Medicine
• End Date:
  20140831
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:293f98b42a87237733106e50cda1749ca89f5bbd1430bd3a9a6abd16654efe32acdaa64798b97ccde706734bf0b207661d92578f6f94634cac139046dd8ba7f0
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  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/201111/cdc_201111_DS1.pdf
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