Expert Advice for Preventing Type 1 Violence – in the Workplace

CENTURY CITY, CA - Jess F. Kraus, who started his career as a safety engineer for Aerojet, went on to gain a PhD in public health with emphasis on safety from the University of Minnesota and now heads the Southern California Injury Prevention Research Center at UCLA. His speech at the Cal-OSHA conference on workplace violence was extremely well received.Kraus reported that, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, co-worker violence accounted for only four percent of workplace deaths in 1992. Ei