Workplace Violence Prevention: Implementing Strategies for Safer Healthcare Organizations
Don’t miss this opportunity to learn from The Joint Commission
and the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA)
during the “Workplace Violence Prevention: Implementing
Strategies for Safer Healthcare Organizations” webinar on
Wednesday, July 25, from 11:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m. (PT)/12:30-1:30
p.m. (MT)/1:30-2:30 p.m. (CT)/2:30-3:30 p.m. (ET).
Enjoy a review of the OSHA 2015 Guidelines for Preventing
Workplace Violence for Healthcare and Social Service
Workers, as well as The Joint Commission’s standards related
to Workplace Violence (WPV) prevention. Then, hear about the work
of Judith Arnetz, PhD, MPH, PT, Department of Family Medicine,
Michigan State University, who will describe how a
multi-hospital, tailored intervention study effectively reduced
violent events. You’ll also learn how to apply this approach to
your organization.
For more than 20 years, OSHA and The Joint Commission have
collaborated to help organizations comply with existing
requirements, as well as provide information, guidance and access
to training resources (https://www.jcrinc.com/about-jcr/osha-alliance/).
Recently, the OSHA Alliance has focused on the growing problem of
WPV, a significant hazard in the health care industry.
At this time, neither OSHA nor The Joint Commission have specific
requirements/standards for WPV prevention programs, however,
ample guidance exists. OSHA issued revised Guidelines for
Preventing Workplace Violence for Healthcare and Social Service
Workers in 2015. In addition, OSHA released Preventing
Workplace Violence: A Road Map for Healthcare Facilities in
2015. In 2016, OSHA published a request for information for the
prevention of WPV in the healthcare and social service settings,
and the need to develop a standard. OSHA is currently reviewing
the comments submitted to the record, and a standard to prevent
WPV in healthcare and social assistance is listed as “Prerule
Stage” on the Spring 2018 Regulatory Agenda.
The most recent
Joint Commission Sentinel Event Alert on this topic
published in April 2018, and it focused on physical and verbal
violence against health care workers.
If you can’t make it, register anyway. We’ll send you the webinar
replay and other valuable resources.
