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Occurrences of Workplace Violence Related to the COVID-19 Pandemic, United States, March 2020 to August 2021
As businesses dealt with an increasingly anxious public during the COVID-19 pandemic and were frequently tasked with enforcing various COVID-19 prevention policies such as mask mandates, workplace violence and harassment (WPV) emerged as an increasing important issue affecting worker safety and heal...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9655057/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36361262 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph192114387 |
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author | Marsh, Suzanne M. Rocheleau, Carissa M. Carbone, Eric G. Hartley, Daniel Reichard, Audrey A. Tiesman, Hope M. |
author_facet | Marsh, Suzanne M. Rocheleau, Carissa M. Carbone, Eric G. Hartley, Daniel Reichard, Audrey A. Tiesman, Hope M. |
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description | As businesses dealt with an increasingly anxious public during the COVID-19 pandemic and were frequently tasked with enforcing various COVID-19 prevention policies such as mask mandates, workplace violence and harassment (WPV) emerged as an increasing important issue affecting worker safety and health. Publicly available media reports were searched for WPV events related to the COVID-19 pandemic that occurred during 1 March 2020, and 31 August 2021, using Google News aggregator services scans with data abstraction and verification. The search found 408 unique WPV events related to COVID-19. Almost two-thirds involved mask disputes. Over half (57%) of the 408 events occurred in retail (38%) and food service (19%). We also conducted a comparison of events identified in this search to a similar study of media reports between March 2020 to October 2020 that used multiple search engines to identify WPV events. Despite similar conclusions, a one-to-one comparison of relevant data from these studies found only modest overlap in the incidents identified, suggesting the need to make improvements to future efforts to extract data from media reports. Prevention resources such as training and education for workers may help industries de-escalate or prevent similar WPV events in the future. |
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spelling | pubmed-96550572022-11-15 Occurrences of Workplace Violence Related to the COVID-19 Pandemic, United States, March 2020 to August 2021 Marsh, Suzanne M. Rocheleau, Carissa M. Carbone, Eric G. Hartley, Daniel Reichard, Audrey A. Tiesman, Hope M. Int J Environ Res Public Health Article As businesses dealt with an increasingly anxious public during the COVID-19 pandemic and were frequently tasked with enforcing various COVID-19 prevention policies such as mask mandates, workplace violence and harassment (WPV) emerged as an increasing important issue affecting worker safety and health. Publicly available media reports were searched for WPV events related to the COVID-19 pandemic that occurred during 1 March 2020, and 31 August 2021, using Google News aggregator services scans with data abstraction and verification. The search found 408 unique WPV events related to COVID-19. Almost two-thirds involved mask disputes. Over half (57%) of the 408 events occurred in retail (38%) and food service (19%). We also conducted a comparison of events identified in this search to a similar study of media reports between March 2020 to October 2020 that used multiple search engines to identify WPV events. Despite similar conclusions, a one-to-one comparison of relevant data from these studies found only modest overlap in the incidents identified, suggesting the need to make improvements to future efforts to extract data from media reports. Prevention resources such as training and education for workers may help industries de-escalate or prevent similar WPV events in the future. MDPI 2022-11-03 /pmc/articles/PMC9655057/ /pubmed/36361262 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph192114387 Text en © 2022 by the authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
spellingShingle | Article Marsh, Suzanne M. Rocheleau, Carissa M. Carbone, Eric G. Hartley, Daniel Reichard, Audrey A. Tiesman, Hope M. Occurrences of Workplace Violence Related to the COVID-19 Pandemic, United States, March 2020 to August 2021 |
title | Occurrences of Workplace Violence Related to the COVID-19 Pandemic, United States, March 2020 to August 2021 |
title_full | Occurrences of Workplace Violence Related to the COVID-19 Pandemic, United States, March 2020 to August 2021 |
title_fullStr | Occurrences of Workplace Violence Related to the COVID-19 Pandemic, United States, March 2020 to August 2021 |
title_full_unstemmed | Occurrences of Workplace Violence Related to the COVID-19 Pandemic, United States, March 2020 to August 2021 |
title_short | Occurrences of Workplace Violence Related to the COVID-19 Pandemic, United States, March 2020 to August 2021 |
title_sort | occurrences of workplace violence related to the covid-19 pandemic, united states, march 2020 to august 2021 |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9655057/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36361262 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph192114387 |
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