France, Argentina, Romania, Canada and England have reported the highest rates of assaults and sexual harassment on the job, according to the report, the most extensive worldwide survey of violence on the job. In the United States, some 1,000 killings take place in work settings every year. Homicide has become the leading cause of death on the job for American women, and the second leading cause for men. Some workplaces and occupations are at higher risk than others of experiencing violence, such as taxi drivers, health care workers, teachers, social workers, domestics in foreign countries, and people working alone, especially in late-night retail operations. Women are especially at risk because so many are concentrated in 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 recommends that policy makers in government and employers' and workers' organizations, health and safety professionals, personnel managers, trainers, and individual workers promote dialogue and take action to denounce violence and remove it from the workplace. The ILO has in recent years published reports and guidelines on such related subjects as stress, sexual harassment, and alcohol and drug abuse in the workplace. Di Martino stressed 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 or do not exist. Bullying - One of the fastest growing complaints of workplace violence, it constitutes offensive behavior through vindictive, cruel, malicious or humiliating attempts to undermine an individual or groups of employees.