Homicide in U.S. Workplaces: A Strategy for Prevention and Research

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• Personal Author:
  Bell CA ; Jenkins, E. Lynn
• Description:
  A summary of the results of a conference on occupational homicide prevention, held in Washington, DC on July 23 to 24, 1990 was presented. Homicide was the third leading cause of occupational injury death from 1980 through 1985 in the United States. It accounted for nearly 13% of the total death from trauma in the workplace. It amounted for 12% of the deaths among men and 42% among women in the workplace. Topics discussed included the limitations of currently available data, the importance of specific research issues, and areas where further study is needed. Known prevention strategies were evaluated. Of the workplace homicide victims, 33% were employed in retail trade, 19% in service industries and 11% in public administration. Public administration had the highest rate of workplace homicide with 2.1 deaths per 100,000 workers. This division included law enforcement officers. Recommendations were made to improve the information gathered on death certificates, to conduct a 1 year census of occupational homicides through local and state health departments, to educate the workforce and to disseminate workplace homicide prevention information. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Accident Prevention Accidents Accidents, Occupational Epidemiology Law Enforcement Mortality Occupational Health Safety
• Keywords:
  Accident-analysis Accident-prevention Mortality-data NIOSH-Contract Policemen Retail-workers Safety-research
• Series:
  NIOSH Numbered Publications
• DOI:
  https://doi.org/10.26616/NIOSHPUB92103
• Publisher:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Document Type:
  Text
• Genre:
  Purchase Order Report
• Place as Subject:
  District of Columbia ; 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:
  1-12
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:00210896
• NTIS Accession Number:
  PB93-138281
• Citation:
  Morgantown, WV: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Public Health Service, Centers for Disease Control, National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, DHHS (NIOSH) Publication No. 92-103, 1992 Sep; :1-12
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  1992
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:0a35b2aa73ca1a36e577794768da78b630550ef7240e831c7670abac2500343e9df845bb31be7a282777858b0b5f50bec0d40958354c7d34f1cdb04dcf6cb687
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/209631/cdc_209631_DS1.pdf
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