HSC 4201 Chapter Notes - Chapter 16: Workplace Violence, Homicide
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Making homicide the fourth leading cause of workplace fatalities behind roadway incidents, contact with objects and equipment, and falls. Some years, homicide is the second leading cause of workplace deaths among women. Thousands of nonfatal workplace injuries and illnesses area a direct or indirect results of workplace violence: 2009, 137,000 workers were treated in emergency departments for nonfatal assaults. Researchers have divided workplace violence into four categories: type i: criminal intent. The perpetrator has no legitimate relationship to the business or its employees. This category makes up 85% of work-related homicides: type ii: customer/client. The perpetrator has a legitimate relationship with the business and become violent while being served. This category makes up for 3% of the work-related homicides: type iii: worker-on-worker. The perpetrator is an employee or past employee of the business who attacks or threatens another employee or past employee of the work place. Accounts for 7% of workplace homicides: type iv: personal relationship.
