FACTS
- According to reports, most employers are not doing enough to prepare for potential workplace violence.
- Workplace homicides attributed to shootings involving workers in elementary and secondary schools are relatively uncommon.
- Workplace shooting events account for only a small portion of nonfatal workplace injuries.
- Active shooters are nearly twice as likely to die if the shooting occurs in a factory or warehouse, compared to commercial settings.
- Copycat active shooter events often happen in clusters, with the risk of an active shooter in the workplace at its highest in the two weeks following a similar incident.
STATS
- Every year in America, more than 300 people go to work and never make it home because of a workplace shooting. In 2017, the number of people intentionally shot dead at work was 351, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported. that number was 394 in 2016.
- From 2011 to 2015, about 2,173 people were killed at work. About a third of them, 721, were killed by a robber. Relatives or domestic partners were responsible for 160 deaths, while customers or clients were responsible for 247. Coworkers killed 312 people.
- Shootings accounted for 78 percent of all workplace homicides. About 4 out of every 5 workplace homicide victims were men.
- Robbers and other assailants accounted for 72 percent of homicides to men. Only 37 percent of homicides to women.
- Those responsible for nearly 80% of workplace homicides don’t have anything to do with the workplace at all.
- 66% of at-work deaths in retail sales are due to homicide. In comparison, 31% of at-work deaths for law enforcement workers are due to homicide.
- 70% of all active shooter incidents are within a commerce/business or educational setting.
- 96% of active shooters are lone males.
- 40% of active shooter assailants commit suicide.
- Approximately 25% of companies are unprepared for active shooter incidents.
- In nearly half of active shooter incidents, police are unable to respond under 10 minutes.