In the United States, some 1,000 killings take place in job settings every year, says the 156-page ILO report, Violence at Work. Homicide has become the leading cause of death on the job for American women, and the second leading cause for men. The ILO report focuses on global trends. Some workplaces and occupations, like taxi drivers, health care workers, teachers, social workers, domestics in foreign countries, people working alone, especially in late night retail operations, are at higher risk than others of experiencing such violence. Women are especially at risk, because so many are concentrated in the high-risk occupations, particularly as teachers, social workers, nurses, and bank and shop workers.
Psychological violence includes bullying or mobbing - group psychological harassment.
The ILO has published in recent years reports and guidelines on such related subjects as stress, sexual harassment, and alcohol and drug abuse in the workplace. The ILO stresses the difficulty of comparing rates of violence between countries. Official statistics on workplace homicide, physical and sexual attacks, sexual harassment and psychological violence are often inadequate where they do exist at all. According to the data gathered in this survey, French employees were the most likely to believe they had been victims of violence in the workplace, with 11.2 percent of males and 8.9 percent of females reporting assaults over the previous year. In recent years, new evidence has been emerging of the impact and harm caused by non-physical violence, often referred to as psychological violence .