OSHA blog: OSHA updates violence prevention guidelines
Hospital Safety Insider, April 23, 2015
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OSHA likes to tout itself as a governmental agency that looks out for workers in all industries. But they aren't doing a very good job of announcing a huge change to guidelines that could help protect healthcare workers from the rising problem of workplace violence.
It took a couple of well-connected readers to let me know that OSHA earlier in April released an update to its Guidelines for Preventing Workplace Violence for Healthcare and Social Service Workers, known to many in the safety field as OSHA Rule 3148. Good luck finding any of this on the OSHA web site, by the way.
After an inquiry to OSHA public relations, I was sent the updated guidelines, which you should pay attention to if you are in charge of safety at your facility.
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