Journal article
Surveillance of Non-Fatal Workplace Assault Injuries, Using Police and Employers' Reports
Journal of occupational and environmental medicine, Vol.40(8), pp.707-713
08/1998
DOI: 10.1097/00043764-199808000-00008
PMID: 9729754
Abstract
Although the majority of work-related homicides are routinely reported in the United States, information on non-fatal events is less complete. Comprehensive surveillance of non-fatal events depends on understanding reporting trends to different agencies. This study characterizes workplace assaults reported to police and through employers in eight southern California cities. Employers' reports filed from October 1, 1994, through January 31, 1995, and police reports filed from June 1, 1994, through March 31, 1995, that involved a non-fatal workplace assault injury were included. Reports from police and employers were linked, and annualized rates combining non-duplicative reports were calculated and event characteristics compared. The combined annualized rate of workplace assault injury for the eight cities was 184.6 per 100,000 workers, which was almost twice the rate found in either reporting source individually. Police reports differed from employers' reports by industry and occupation of victim but not type of event or weapons used. Examination of multiple reporting sources for non-fatal workplace assault injuries is essential to identifying the magnitude of these events. Understanding trends in reporting is important for the effective design of prevention programs.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Surveillance of Non-Fatal Workplace Assault Injuries, Using Police and Employers' Reports
- Creators
- Corinne Peek-Asa - From the Southern California Injury Prevention Research Center, UCLA School of Public Health, Los Angeles, Calif. (Dr Peek-Asa, Ms Brown Schaffer, Dr Kraus); and the Department of Industrial Relations, California Occupational Safety and Health Administration, San Francisco, Calif. (Dr Howard)Kathryn SchafferJess KrausJohn Howard
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- Journal of occupational and environmental medicine, Vol.40(8), pp.707-713
- DOI
- 10.1097/00043764-199808000-00008
- PMID
- 9729754
- NLM abbreviation
- J Occup Environ Med
- ISSN
- 1076-2752
- eISSN
- 1536-5948
- Publisher
- Williams & Wilkins
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 08/1998
- Academic Unit
- Occupational and Environmental Health; Epidemiology; Nursing; Public Policy Center (Archive)
- Record Identifier
- 9984215045402771
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