Horrible bosses. If you’ve had one, hopefully they were not as bad as those portrayed by Jennifer Aniston, Kevin Spacey, and Colin Farrell in the newly released movie of the same name. While the plot and characters are exaggerated and the comic elements may not be to everyone’s taste, the movie highlights the very real issues of work stress and violence. Each week in the United States, an average of 33,000 workers are assaulted on the job and 14 are murdered. By and large, robbery-related factors account for the toll of homicide at work. The situations portrayed in the movie are not typical—worker-on-worker (or boss) violence accounts for only about 8% of workplace homicides. More than half of all workplace homicides occur in retail or service settings such as conveniences stores, taxicab services, and gas stations with the majority of these homicides occurring during a robbery.
Selected Category: Media
Horrible Bosses: Workplace violence in the real world
Categories: Media, Stress, Violence
July 18th, 2011 2:47 pm ET - Dan Hartley, EdD
Tales of Toil
Categories: Media
March 22nd, 2011 10:00 am ET - Cheryl Fairfield Estill, MS, PE
Mikael Blomkvist risks his life to conduct investigative journalism. Candido and America navigate day-labor sites and accept significant hazards in their work. Abilene, a black maid in 1960′s Mississippi, describes her working conditions in white households. Jacob Jankowski cares for circus lions and elephants but fears his boss and co-workers. Books like The Girl Who Played with Fire, The Tortilla Curtain, The Help, and Water for Elephants can get to the heart of workplace issues within the context of a page turner. Books have the ability to go beyond the fatalities and injuries reported in the news or the safety information presented by NIOSH and others to delve into the complexities of how these issues affect individuals, families, and communities.
Does the NIOSH Science Blog Improve Communication?
Categories: Media
March 4th, 2011 11:21 am ET - Virginia Sublet, PhD, Christina Spring, MA, John Howard, MD
The NIOSH Science Blog was launched in November 2007. Since that date, over 70 unique posts have appeared on the blog. With over 23,000 blog subscribers and more than 1,200 comments posted to the blog, NIOSH perceives that the blog is a useful communication tool.
OSH in the Movies: This Time It’s Personal
Categories: Media, Sports and entertainment
September 23rd, 2010 10:55 am ET - James Kesner, PhD
If our original blog entry on Alice in Wonderland’s Mad Hatter has demonstrated anything, it is that OSH-related issues permeate the movies—whether they are from Hollywood or Bollywood, blockbusters or independent films, foreign flicks or documentaries—and whether the OSH issues are portrayed on screen or occurred while making the movies. A recent release from Peru, “The Milk of Sorrow” [La teta asustada], describes a young woman exploited by her employer while working as a maid. Another recent release, “Last Train Home,” portrays the devastating impact of occupational stress on migrant workers in present-day China caught between its rural past and industrial future. And lest the reader be lulled into thinking occupational hazards are relegated to America’s past, “The Company Men,” opening in October, describes the stress and disruption of workplace downsizing on the lives of three workers (Ben Affleck, Tommy Lee Jones and Chris Cooper), their families and their communities.
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