Citation

Smith CR, Gillespie GL, Beery TA. Workplace Health Saf. 2015; 63(7): 297-307.

Affiliation

University of Cincinnati.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2015, American Association of Occupational Health Nurses, Publisher SAGE Publications)

DOI

10.1177/2165079915580786

PMID

26089114

Abstract

Adolescent workers may not be aware that violence is a safety concern in the workplace. As part of a larger mixed-methods pilot study, investigators used a self-administered survey and individual interviews with 30 adolescent workers from a chain of food service stores in a Midwestern metropolitan area to explore experiences of workplace violence (WPV) and ways of learning WPV-specific information. Participants reported experiencing verbal and sexual harassment and robberies. Most participants reported awareness of WPV-specific policies and procedures at their workplace; the ways participants reported learning WPV-specific information varied.

FINDINGS support the need for occupational safety training to assist adolescent workers prevent and mitigate potential WPV.

Language: en