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Employer Policies Toward Guns and the Risk of Homicide in the Workplace

Author(s) -

Dana Loomis,

Stephen W. Marshall,

Myduc Ta

Publication year - 2005

Publication title -

american journal of public health

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 2.284

H-Index - 264

eISSN - 1541-0048

pISSN - 0090-0036

DOI - 10.2105/ajph.2003.033535

Subject(s) - homicide , occupational safety and health , odds ratio , suicide prevention , injury prevention , human factors and ergonomics , poison control , odds , confidence interval , environmental health , population , medicine , demography , criminology , psychology , sociology , logistic regression , pathology

This population-based case-control study of North Carolina workplaces evaluated the hypothesis that employers' policies allowing firearms in the workplace may increase workers' risk of homicide. Workplaces where guns were permitted were about 5 times as likely to experience a homicide as those where all weapons were prohibited (adjusted odds ratio=4.81; 95% confidence interval=1.70, 13.65). The association remained after adjustment for other risk factors. The findings suggest that policies allowing guns in the workplace might increase workers' risk of homicide.

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