Decline in Workplace Violence

New Report Shows Workplace Violence Declined from 1993-2009

Mar 29, 2011 12:30 PM, By Laura Walter

On March 29, the Justice Department Bureau of Justice Statistics’ (BJS) released a new publication, “Workplace Violence, 1993-2009,” that shows a decline in both workplace homicides and nonfatal, violent crimes in the workplace over the last 16 years.

Approximately 572,000 nonfatal violent crimes, including rape, robbery or assault, occurred against employees age 16 or older while they were at work or on duty in 2009 – a decline from the 2.1 million nonfatal violent crimes that occurred at the workplace in 1993. The number of homicides in the workplace decreased by 51 percent from a high of 1,068 homicides in 1993 to 521 homicides in 2009

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