The Health Care Workplace Violence Prevention Act would direct OSHA to create a standard that would require healthcare facilities to develop and implement facility- and unit-specific workplace violence prevention plans.
Workplace violence is seldom the freak episode that the media portrays it to be. It rarely involves a mass shooting with a gun, and rarely does it result in a homicide or mass casualty.
While the violation genres themselves are not a surprise, the number of OSHA violations in 2013 was a significant increase from the same genres in 2012.
After voicing her concerns about a client, Stephanie Ross was sent to his house anyway for his face-to-face hospitalization risk assessment, and he stabbed her to death.