Jennifer Taylor, Regan Murray, Margaret Binzer, Captain Robert Borse, Andrea Davis, Victoria Gallogly, Rozhan Ghanbari, Lieutenant Diane McKinsey, Battalion Chief David Picone, Paramedic Gary Wingrove
PROBLEM: Between 1980 and 2021, emergency medical services (EMS) calls experienced a 421% increase, while calls for fires declined by 55%. The more exposure, the more the opportunity for workplace violence (WPV). Due to the non- existence of a reporting system that captures physical and verbal violence, it has been difficult to quantify the degree of WPV experienced by the U.S. fire and rescue service. METHODS: To describe WPV in three large metropolitan fire departments, an existing data system was modified...
September 2023: Journal of Safety Research