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Health care and social assistance workers accounted for 72.8% of all cases of private industry workplace violence from 2021-2022, more than any other sector, according to the latest data available ...
Health and social service workers providing services were five times as likely to suffer a serious workplace-violence injury than workers in other sectors, the Bureau of Labor Statistics found in ...
Workplace Violence Prevention for Health Care and Social Service Workers Act H.R. 1195: February 22, 2021 Joe Courtney (D-CT) 145 Passed in the House (254-166) S.4182: May 11, 2022 Tammy Baldwin (D-WI) 35 Referred to committees of jurisdiction. 118th Congress: Workplace Violence Prevention for Health Care and Social Service Workers Act H.R. 2663
[1] [2] [9] At the psychiatry department, the violence of the patients were directed more to nurses than doctors and to women than men. [10] In a tertiary care hospital in Delhi, 40% of doctors reported being exposed to violence in the last year. The point of delivery of emergency services was the most common place of violence and verbal abuse ...
In the UK there were 135 fatal injuries at work in financial year 2022–2023, compared with 651 in 1974 (the year when the Health and Safety at Work Act was promulgated). The fatal injury rate declined from 2.1 fatalities per 100,000 workers in 1981 to 0.41 in financial year 2022–2023. [87]
"Abuse and violence against our healthcare workers is unacceptable," writes A.J. Wilhemi, CEO of the Illinois Health and Hospital Association.
A description of workplace violence by Wynne, Clarkin, Cox, & Griffiths (1997), define workplace violence to be incidents resulting in abuse, assault or threats directed towards staff with regard to work–including an explicit or implicit challenge to their safety, well-being or health. [5]
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