From: Dean Payne Subject: MEDIA: Workplace Violence on NPR, Monday afternoon To: firearms-alert@shell.portal.com Date: Mon, 12 Dec 94 11:23:07 PST Heard this morning: National Public Radio's Fresh Air will have a segment this afternoon (Monday, December 12) on Workplace Violence. The teaser was too short to devine the tone or the possible firearms content. In the Seattle area, Fresh Air starts at 6:30 pm on KPLU (88.5 FM). Other NPR stations run a different number of segments earlier in the afternoon. ____ A report on the Los Angeles Times / Washington Post newswire last Friday, December 9, indicates that the "Workplace Violence Epidemic Not All It's Cracked Up to Be." There were 1063 workplace murders last year, about 12 to 13 percent of all occupational injury deaths. Most are taxi drivers, security guards and police officers killed in the line of duty, and convenience store clerks killed on graveyard shift. Though much attention is being placed on co-workers "going postal," there are only about 60 employer-directed murders per year. A person is three times more likely to be struck by lightning. Despite the expression "going postal," Postal Service employees have a slightly lower than average murder rate on the job, and less than half the overall death-on-the-job rate of other industries combined. The article takes its figures from the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH), and the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. Dean deanp@lsid.hp.com __ From: patrick@epatrick.gsfc.nasa.gov Date: Mon, 12 Dec 1994 18:00:15 PST Subject: NIOSH, CDC and Workplace Violence To: firearms-alert@shell.portal.com Healthcare and RKBA. When they say "workplace violence" they are inducing one thing (FEAR) and are after another (GUNS). Get the info. Buy DHHS (NIOSH) Publication No. 92-103 from the GPO, "Homicide in U.S. Workplaces: A Strategy for Prevention and Research." It's only a dollar or two. Their most "shocking" statistic is that 43% of trauma deaths for women in the workplace are homicides. This figure is only 12% for men. They express be- wilderment at such a figure (i.e., they have no clue). Clue #1: a combine is more dangerous than a fax machine. This is how the CDC and AMA hop aboard the HCI bandwagon. The six years in the study ('80-'85) show a 0.8/100,000 homicide rate for the work force (the total national rate is around 10/100,000 for the period). The original arguments are beginning to fall apart. Fight homicide. Go to work. Edward L. Patrick P.S. The new UCR '93 is out. I just bought it ($24). Available at a GPO outlet near you.