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May 2005, Vol 95, No. 5 | American Journal of Public Health 830-832
© 2005 American Public Health Association
DOI: 10.2105/AJPH.2003.033535

RESEARCH AND PRACTICE

Employer Policies Toward Guns and the Risk of Homicide in the Workplace

Dana Loomis, PhD, Stephen W. Marshall, PhD and Myduc L. Ta, MPH

The authors are with the Department of Epidemiology and the Injury Prevention Research Center, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. Dana Loomis is also with the Department of Environmental Sciences and Engineering.

Correspondence: Requests for reprints should be sent to Dana Loomis, PhD, Department of Epidemiology, CB-7435 UNC-CH, Chapel Hill, NC 27599-7435 (e-mail: dana.loomis{at}unc.edu).

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.




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