New Calif. health care violence prevention rule takes effect Mon.
While regulations are being rolled back at the federal level, the state of California is implementing new ones, including a regulation aimed at protecting the state’s health care workers from on-the-job violence that takes effect on April 1, 2017.
Beginning Monday, health care industry employers who are covered under the rule must develop and implement a Workplace Violence Prevention Plan, report violent incidents to the Division of Occupational Safety and Health (DOSH), keep a “violent incident log” containing details about every incident of workplace violence and keep records concerning training and workplace violence hazard identification, evaluation and correction.