Workplace Violence: Occupational Safety and Health Administration Guidelines for Workers in Health Care and Social Services

Connecticut Medicine

Volumn 62, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 333-336

  Trapé, Marcia ^a,b  

^a Employee Health Service

^b UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COUNSELING; GOVERNMENT; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PROGRAM DEVELOPMENT; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; RISK MANAGEMENT; SOCIAL WORK; UNITED STATES; VIOLENCE; WORKPLACE;

COUNSELING; GUIDELINES; HEALTH PERSONNEL; HEALTH POLICY; HUMANS; OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH; PROGRAM DEVELOPMENT; PROGRAM EVALUATION; RECORDS; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS; RISK MANAGEMENT; SECURITY MEASURES; SOCIAL WORK; UNITED STATES; UNITED STATES OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY AND HEALTH ADMINISTRATION; VIOLENCE; WORKPLACE;

EID: 0032087642     PISSN: 00106178     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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