This article examines 993 violent incidents involving faculty, students, and staff that occurred at a highly ranked teaching and research university and its affiliated medical center. Violent incidents were included in the sample if they involved faculty, students, or staff, regardless of their specific location or context (i.e., whether they occurred on campus and/or off-campus and whether they occurred within the context of work or some other activity). The theoretical goal of the project was to compare work-related incidents with non-work-related incidents of interpersonal violence occurring in a single, multifunctioning, and professionally hierarchical organization. Data were collected over a 7-year period from three police departments (city, county, and university), university records, and criminal history records obtained from the state police. The coding protocol was developed to capture crime-scene information pertinent to each of the incidents. This included information about the victim, the perpetrator, the relationship between the victim and perpetrator, and the violent incident. The data were examined using nonparametric statistics and logistic regression to model predictive differences between the workplace and non-workplace incidents. The results suggest that the workplace incidents of violence differ from the non-workplace incidents according to their time, victim age, degree of victim injury, and whether the workplace is a medical location. The authors conclude that these differences are better explained by the movement of people in and out of the workplace who bring societal violence with them, rather than by a category or type of workplace violence.
Abstract-RADARSAT-1 has been operating for over nine years as the world's first commercial space-borne synthetic aperture RADAR (SAR) remote sensing system. RADARSAT-2 provides for a continuation of the RADARSAT-1 services, enhanced performance, new features, and a more commercial approach to both the development and operation of the system. This paper describes some key aspects of the development from an operations perspective along with the system integration and preparation for operations.Following a system operations overview, constraints, driving requirements, and mission characteristics determining the operations concept are described. Operations lessons learned from RADARSAT-1 system development and operation and factored into the RADARSAT-2 approach are summarized.Organizational and technical challenges and solutions for development and system operations are explored using RADARSAT-2 examples. A key challenge is to perform the system integration for RADARSAT-2 without interference to continuing RADARSAT-1 operations. The paper describes the phases, major activities and milestones of the system integration, and key features of the operations preparation for the system components.
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