Tag: Healthcare Facilities

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Violence Prevention Program Participation Essential for Workers in Healthcare Facilities

By William C Schillaci Sep 4, 2019 Safety

Healthcare workers experience a disproportionately high occurrence of assaults compared to the U.S. workforce as a whole. These assaults are most common in hospital facilities but also occur in smaller clinics, psychiatric and social service facilities, nursing homes and other long-term care facilities, homes visited by workers, and during transportation of patients. The wide variety […]

Man arrested after assaulting nurse

OSHA Enforces General Duty Violations in Healthcare Facilities

By William C Schillaci Oct 15, 2018 Human Resources

An OSHA standard directed at mitigating workplace violence in healthcare facilities is not looming on the horizon, but not because OSHA is unaware of the main provisions such a standard would include. As it currently stands, it is not uncommon for OSHA to issue citations against healthcare employers whose employees are attacked, harmed, threatened, or […]