The two share multiple root causes, say experts from the National Safety Council and the University of Waterloo.

Violence is expensive. Hospitals and health systems spend an estimated $18.27 billion responding to and preparing for violence, according to the American Hospital Association. But the vast majority of that spend isn’t about prevention.

Workplace violence is highly prevalent across emergency care systems worldwide, according to a study published online Sept. 24 in the European Journal of Emergency Medicine to coincide with the annual meeting of the annual European Emergency Medicine Congress,

Workplace and community violence in American hospitals not only inflicts pain and trauma on healthcare workers. It also drives costs higher for an already stretched hospital system. A recent research report from the American Hospital Association found ...

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Efforts to address workplace violence against health care professionals need to evolve beyond preventing individual incidents to confronting systemic challenges that impede patient-centered, trauma-informed care, according to an article published in AACN ...

Incidents of workplace violence persist. Training workforces to predict and prevent them is vitally important.

Heat exposure, workplace violence and structural changes to coverage systems are key emerging issues shaping the workers compensation landscape in 2026, according to a report released Tuesday by the National Council on Compensation Insurance. The report ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Rick Lucas sees his fair share of violence on the job. The 41-year-old, who works as a nurse at the Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center in Columbus, recalled one situation when ...

WorkSafeBC is pausing its public consultation on proposed changes to the province’s Occupational Health and Safety Regulation after Premier David Eby called a snap provincial election for Oct. 24. From an employer’s perspective,