Healthcare DIVE September 26, 2024
Brian T. Horowitz

Shan Sinha, CEO and founder of wearable safety company Canopy, discusses healthcare workplace violence and technology’s potential to help protect workers.

Each day, healthcare workers are threatened with violence in the United States.

Violent injuries are five times more prevalent in healthcare than in other industries, and 75% of the approximately 25,000 workplace assaults reported annually occur in the health industry, according to the Occupational Safety and Health Administration.

A survey released in February by National Nurses United found that 8 in 10 nurses experienced at least one incident of workplace violence in the past year.

The amount of workplace violence in healthcare prompted Shan Sinha to found wearable safety company Canopy. The company offers a personal duress button that...

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