Did you know...
- workers in many occupations in the retail sector face an above-average
risk of violence?
- for many years, retail occupations had the highest risk of homicide?
- ten years ago the federal government estimated annual costs incurred
by victims of workplace violence were more than $55 million in wages alone?
- employers incur indirect costs as high as 20 times the direct cost?
- according to the National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health,
in 1992 the retail sector accounted for 21% of non-fatal assaults?