Employer policies toward guns and the risk of homicide in the workplace.
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.
Loomis
Dana
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Department of Epidemiology and the Injury Prevention Research Center, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill 27599-7435, USA. dana.loomis@unc.edu <dana.loomis@unc.edu>
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Stephen W
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D016022:Case-Control Studies; D016001:Confidence Intervals; D005389:Firearms; D006708:Homicide / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D006801:Humans; D009657:North Carolina; D012307:Risk Factors; D017132:Workplace / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence*