Employees who work alone are at greater risk of workplace violence. One of the higher‐risk lone worker occupations in North America is truck driving. Drawing on interviews with 158 truck drivers across the United States and Canada, this article examines how truck drivers interpret and experience both interpersonal and impersonal forms of workplace violence. Rather than rely on police enforcement and safety regulations, the truck drivers in this study believed that they were primarily on their own with regard to workplace violence. As a result, truck drivers described how they continually engage in informal personal safety strategies in order to decrease their chances of being victimized. These findings reveal how neoliberal responsibilization approaches to health and safety serve to conceal structural patterns of power and risk by containing individual responsibility for safety at the frontline. Overall, this study points to the need for law and policy to better incorporate the frontline experiences of workers when attempting to decrease the risk of workplace violence.

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工作场所暴力：检查卡车司机中的人际和非人际暴力

独自工作的员工面临工作场所暴力的更大风险。在北美，高风险的孤独工人职业之一是卡车驾驶。本文基于对美国和加拿大的158名卡车司机的采访，考察了卡车司机如何解释和体验人际和非个人形式的工作场所暴力。在这项研究中，卡车司机没有依靠警察的执法和安全法规，而是认为他们主要是依靠工作场所的暴力。结果，卡车司机描述了他们如何继续采取非正式的人身安全策略，以减少遭受伤害的机会。这些发现揭示了新自由主义的健康与安全责任制如何通过在一线遏制个人对安全的责任来掩盖权力和风险的结构性模式。总体而言，这项研究指出，在试图降低工作场所暴力风险时，需要有法律和政策更好地结合工人的一线经验。