Citation

Van der Spuy E, Rontsch R. Inj. Saf. Mon. 2002; 1(1): 8-12.

Affiliation

Crime, Violence and Injury Lead Programme, MRC; Institute of Criminology, University of Cape Town.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2002, Medical Research Council of South Africa)

DOI

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Abstract

Violence in the workplace has become an issue of international concern. Workplace violence can be defined as destructive behaviour towards another person or object and finds expression in, for instance, physical assault, homicide, verbal abuse, bullying, sexual harassment and acts leading to mental stress (Hoel et al., 1999). This second part of an article on workplace violence reports on the research findings of the quantitative section of a broader project on the influence of crime and violence on the delivery of health services in the Western Cape. [The first part of the article was published in the previous Trauma Review 2000, 8(2).]