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What is workplace violence?Workplace violence is violence or the threat ofviolence against workers. It can occur at oroutside the workplace and can range fromthreats and verbal abuse to physical assaults andhomicide, one of the leading causes of job-relateddeaths.
Healthcare workers are at an increased risk for workplace violence. From. 2002 to 2013, incidents of serious workplace violence (those requiring days off for. the injured worker to recuperate) were four times more common in healthcare than. in private industry on average. In 2013, the broad âhealthcare and social assistanceâ.