Professional and business services: 4,460 injuries, 65 deathsįor these employees, workplace violence is the third leading cause of death on the job.
Education and health services: 22,590 injuries, 35 deaths.Government: 37,110 injuries, 128 deaths.The publication Injury Facts 2016 cites the following workplace violence statistics for 2013: While taxi drivers, healthcare workers, and other social work occupations have some of the highest rates of workplace violence, other sectors of employment are seeing an increase in workplace violence, too. They have more than double the rate of on-the-job homicides than men (19% to 8%), with 32% of the homicides committed by a domestic partner. Women in particular are vulnerable to domestic violence in the workplace. While workplace violence can affect anyone, there are certain risk factors that increase a person’s risk, including gender and occupation. Personal relationship (such as domestic violence).Criminal intent (e.g., robbery by someone with no relationship to the business).There are four major types of workplace violence, including: Workplace violence prevention training is crucial to keep your employees and customers safe. By 2014, that yearly total number was cut in half to about 426 people murdered annually, but 16% of all workplace fatalities are still due to workplace violence. According to the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH), in 1996, every week 20 people were murdered and 18,000 more assaulted while on the job. We should not have to have this conversation, but increasingly, workplace violence prevention is something we cannot ignore as business leaders.
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