Washington State's Late Night Retail Worker Crime Protection RegulationRelationships with Employer Practices
作者:
Nancy Nelson,
Carmen Mendoza,
Barbara Silverstein,
Joel Kaufman,
期刊:
Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine
(OVID Available online 1997)
卷期:
Volume 39,
issue 12
页码: 1233-1239
ISSN:1076-2752
年代: 1997
出版商: OVID
数据来源: OVID
摘要:
Washington's late night retail worker crime protection regulation, enforced by the state Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) program, was intended to prevent injuries by deterring violent crimes. We investigated whether the regulation was associated with businesses' violence prevention activities. We surveyed 1,516 employers at high risk of robbery, including gas stations, groceries, hotels, restaurants, and taverns, in 1995 to determine whether they had violence prevention training programs for their employees (a requirement of the standard). Awareness of the regulation was low (4.4%). Employers covered by the regulation were more likely to have programs (Odds Ratio [OR] = 1.4), as were those aware of a regulation (OR = 3.4). State OSHA plan contact (an inspection or consultation) was also associated with having a program (OR = 1.9). Despite low awareness of the standard, results suggested that regulatory efforts to protect high-risk employees were associated with employers' robbery and crime prevention activities.
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