| Document ID (ISN) | 40811 |
| CIS number |
83-2055 |
| Year |
1983 |
| Convention or series no. |
AFS 1983:1
|
| Author(s) |
National Board of Occupational Safety and Health (Arbetarskyddsstyrelsen) |
| Title |
General recommendations concerning risks of violence in the workplace |
| Original title |
Allmänna råd beträffande våldsrisker i arbetsmiljön [in Swedish] |
| Bibliographic information |
LiberDistribution, 162 89 Stockholm, Sweden, 25 Feb. 1983. 15p. 26 ref. |
| Abstract |
Recommendations for workers whose occupations expose them to the risk of violence (bank and post-office employees, policemen, jewelers, night watchmen, prison guards, psychiatric hospital personnel); safety measures (planning and layout of facilities in ways to eliminate the risk, TV-camera surveillance and alarm systems, security routines, training of personnel exposed to the risk of violence); measures to comfort, reassure or care for personnel who have suffered aggression; recording and reporting of cases of aggression; collaboration between employers and workers; reference to Swedish publications on means of warning and defense. Check lists for risk-limiting measures, routine precautions, support and rehabilitation of victims and reporting are appended. |
| Descriptors (primary) |
banking and insurance; Sweden; violence; police forces; postal services |
| Descriptors (secondary) |
guard duty; alarm systems; directive; replaced; prison services |
| Document type |
A - Laws, regulations, directives |
| Country / State or Province | Sweden |
| Subject(s) |
Standards and directives with the force of law
|
| Broad subject area(s) |
Industries and occupations
|
| Browse category(ies) |
Fire fighting, police, prisons and the armed forces
Banking and financial services
Violence
Violence and terrorism
Communications industry
|
