Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS)

*Workplace Violence, 1993-2009* [29 March 2011]

http://www.bjs.gov/index.cfm?ty=pbdetail&iid=2377

or

http://www.bjs.gov/content/pub/pdf/wv09.pdf

[full-text, 18 pages]

Presents information on violence in the workplace against employed persons based on the Bureau of Justice Statistics' National Crime Victimization Survey and the Bureau of Labor Statistics' Census of Fatal Occupational Injuries. This report includes both nonfatal and fatal forms of violence. Comparisons are made with violence against unemployed persons and violence against employed persons outside of the workplace. Information on type of workplace violence is included. Also discussed is violence by occupation as well as information on victim and crime characteristics such as gender and race distribution, offender weapon use, police notification, and victim injury.

Highlights include the following:

From 2002 to 2009, the rate of nonfatal workplace violence has declined by

35%, following a 62% decline in the rate from 1993 to 2002.

Between 2005 and 2009, law enforcement officers, security guards, and bartenders had the highest rates of nonfatal workplace violence.

Among workplace homicides that occurred between 2005 and 2009, about 28% involved victims in sales and related occupations and about 17% involved victims in protective service occupations.

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