%0 Journal Article
%T Employer policies toward guns and the risk of homicide in the workplace
%J American journal of public health
%D 2005
%A Ta, Myduc L.
%A Marshall, Stephen W.
%A Loomis, D. P.
%A Loomis, Dana
%V 95
%N 5
%P 830-832
%X 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.
%G 
%I American Public Health Association
%@ 0090-0036
%U http://dx.doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.2003.033535