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MH Workplace Suicides Increase

- 9/10/2009
Employers should be able to take some comfort in a recent preliminary report from the Bureau of Labor Statistics that shows an ongoing decline in workplace fatalities over the past year. But the agency's data points to at least one troubling trend: A double-digit jump in the number of suicides occurring in the workplace.

The profile of those most likely to take their lives at work closely resembles that of previous years, according to the BLS data. Of the 251 workplace suicides that occurred in 2008, 94 percent were committed by men and 78 percent were white. Workers between the ages of 45 and 54 accounted for the age group with the highest number of suicides (36 percent).

In 2008, workers in management jobs accounted for the largest group of suicides, roughly 14 percent. Transportation and material handling, sales and protective-services occupations, meanwhile, each accounted for 10 percent of incidents.

Read the whole story at Human Resource Executive Online.

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