Health care workers are at a 4x greater risk of experiencing violence in the workplace than in private industry , with the emergency department staff facing the majority of these incidences While healthcare professionals make up only 10% of the u.s The health care and social service industries experience the highest rates of injuries caused by workplace violence and are 5 times as likely to suffer a workplace violence injury than workers overall.
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Some professions and settings are more at risk than others
Although healthcare workers make up 10% of the workforce, they experience 48% of nonfatal injuries due to workplace violence, according to the bureau of labor statistics (bls).
Health care workers experience the highest rates of violent injuries in the workplace in the us 7.8 per 1,000 workers per year, compared to rates under 2.0 per 1,000 for other private industry. The group of medical staff that records the highest frequency of traumatic harm at their job site are those who assist mentally ill patients Regardless of these differences, most studies show that health care workers, particularly nurses, are at a far higher risk of workplace violence compared to most other professions.