United States Department of Labor Occupational Safety and Health and Administration Violence in the workplace is a serious safety and health issue. Its most extreme form, homicide, is the fourth-leading cause of fatal occupational injury in the United States. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics Census of Fatal Occupational Injuries (CFOI), there were 564 [...]
Archive | December, 2009
Workplace Violence Statistics
DHHS Workplace Violence Training Research Library Of all violent crimes reported in the U.S. between 1993 to 1999, 18% of these crimes occured in the workplace (including 900 homicides, 36,500 sexual assaults, and 1.3 million simple assaults). Homicide is the second leading cause of death in the workplace in the U.S., and the number one [...]
