Violence Prevention in Healthcare: Human Beings are Sensory Beings

Many healthcare and social service agencies look for ways to prevent injuries to their employees. Injury prevention training to reduce needle sticks, strain injuries, and falls are very common. However, trends in violence in the workplace has led to an increase in employee trainings to help contain this threat. In a recent article, by Michelle A. Dressner, 45.9% of injuries in state government hospitals, 14.8% in local government hospitals, and 11% in private hospitals were due to violence. In the state government hospitals, over half of the injuries were sub-classified as “intentional injuries by other person.”1