Employee resistance and injury during commercial robberies

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• Personal Author:
  Casteel C ; Jones J ; Peek-Asa, Corinne
• Description:
  Objectives: To examine the association between employee resistance and injury and examine whether type or location of property stolen was associated with employee resistance during commercial robberies in a large metropolitan city. Methods: Robbery data were abstracted from police crime reports between 2008 and 2012. Log binomial regression models were used to identify predictors of employee resistance and to evaluate the association between employee resistance and injury. Results: Employees resisted a robber in nearly half of all robbery events. Active employee resistance was significantly associated with employee injury (Adj PR: 1.49, 95% confidence interval, 1.34 to 1.65). Goods being stolen were associated with active employee resistance and employee injury, whereas cash only being stolen was inversely associated with employee injury. Conclusions: Results suggest that employee training in nonresistance can be an important strategy in protecting employees working with the exchange of cash and goods. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Occupational Health Risk Assessment Risk Factors Safety Staff Development Workplace
• Keywords:
  Exposure-levels Force Injuries Models Risk-factors Service-industries Statistical-analysis Training Work-environment Workers
• ISSN:
  1076-2752
• 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:
  57
• Issue:
  5
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20046175
• Citation:
  J Occup Environ Med 2015 May; 57(5):531-536
• Contact Point Address:
  Jennifer Jones, MPH, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Injury Prevention Research Center, 137 E. Franklin St, Ste 500, Chapel Hill, NC 27599
• Email:
  jjones86@live.unc.edu
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  2015
• Performing Organization:
  University of Iowa
• Peer Reviewed:
  True
• Start Date:
  20080901
• Source Full Name:
  Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine
• End Date:
  20150831
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:57f439e68d8ed98c1a886ad63650cbeb25c35f98830ec4d0d2ed8592d6e8e325d97459ae59aa73be3c67135ca8939df6af5e67497b6d13f2e6962034d8b51b14
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  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/201302/cdc_201302_DS1.pdf
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