Employer policies toward guns and the risk of homicide in in workplace

D. Loomis, S.W. Marshall and M.L. Ta

American Journal of Public Health, 2005, vol. 95, issue 5, 830-832

Abstract: 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.

Date: 2005
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DOI: 10.2105/AJPH.2003.033535

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