Social Worker Safety

Posted on February 29th, 2008 in Social Work.

The 2004 NASW Workforce Study inquired about a variety of practice issues, including workplace safety. Forty four percent of survey respondents indicated that they face issues threatening their personal safety at work. Of these, an alarming one third felt their employers did not pay sufficient attention to their on-the-job safety.

Here’s a link to the study’s findings in regard to factors associated with social workers who face personal safety issues on the job:

Social Workers and Safety
http://workforce.socialworkers.org/whatsnew/safety.pdf

Source: Whitaker, T., Weismiller, T., & Clark, E. (2006). Assuring the sufficiency of a frontline workforce:
Executive summary. Washington, DC: National Association of Social Workers.