Association of Reported Non-Fatal Injuries Due to Violence Before and After Implementation of OSHA State Plan Standards in Healthcare

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• Personal Author:
  Urtz KQ
• Description:
  The world has always been a place full of unexpected danger, and violence. Often humans are naïve that such acts of violence can happen at work, or how to report these incidents when they do happen. According to the occupational safety and health data from United States Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), in 2010 there were over 11,000 violent assaults reported at work, this accounts for a 13% increase from the prior year, 2009 (OSHA, 2010). Out of those 11,000 assaults, 19% took place in residential and nursing facilities alone. The healthcare industry has been labelled as one of the high risk industries when referring to workplace violence (OSHA, 2017). Six States in the United States have taken proactive steps in trying to identify, and understand the trends of reported workplace violence injuries within healthcare. California, Connecticut, Illinois, Maryland, New Jersey, and Oregon have implemented within their Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) state plans, a reporting standard for workplace violence incidents. To understand the trends before and after an implementation of a reporting standard, the collection of data was gathered through the BLS in the field of healthcare. Out of the six states, five had a very strong positive association of reported cases after the implementation of a standard, while one of the six had a strong negative association. The influence of a standard for reporting workplace violence seems to correlate with either encouraging reporting, or is making healthcare personnel more aware of the situation. More studies should be performed on the accuracy of reporting data on non-fatal injuries in the work force that involve workplace violence. Awareness and reporting standards should be a topic for employers to not only encourage employees, but to also analyze the trends in their facilities. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Health Personnel Occupational Health Safety Violence Workplace
• Keywords:
  Assaults Health Care Workers Injuries Surveillance Programs Worker Safety Workplace Violence
• ISBN:
  9780355680287
• Publisher:
  ProQuest LLC.
• Document Type:
  Text
• Funding:
  Grant
• Genre:
  Thesis
• Place as Subject:
  New York ; OSHA Region 2
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20063951
• Citation:
  Ann Arbor, MI: ProQuest LLC., 2018 Jan; :10745032
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  2018
• Performing Organization:
  State University of New York at Buffalo
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• Start Date:
  20060701
• Source Full Name:
  Association of reported non-fatal injuries due to violence before and after implementation of OSHA state plan standards in healthcare
• End Date:
  20250630
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
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• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/222484/cdc_222484_DS1.pdf
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