Stun-Gun-Armed Officers Result in Workplace Violence Drop in Hospitals
Approximately 11,370 healthcare and social assistance workers were the victims of workplace violence assaults in 2010 – a 13-percent increase over such assaults in 2009, and many more incidents likely go unreported, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
In the past year, 89 percent of hospitals had at least one event of workplace violence, with an average of 123 events per hospital. This led researchers to ask: what are healthcare security departments doing to mitigate the risks of violence?