Workplace Violence Prevention for Health Care and Social Service Workers Act
Summary
What This Bill Does
The bill directs Secretary of Labor to issue interim final OSHA standard within 1 year on workplace violence prevention for healthcare and social service sectors, followed by a final standard within 42 months, defines scope: covered facilities (hospitals, nursing homes, psychiatric facilities, drug treatment, emergency centers, correctional medical), covered services (home health, emergency transport), covered employers, and requires detailed requirements for workplace violence prevention plans, incident investigation, training, recordkeeping (5-year retention), violent incident logs, annual reports, and anti-retaliation protections. It relies on compliance mandates, definition changes, product standards, and reporting requirements. The main policy areas are Healthcare.
Who Benefits and How
Healthcare workers could face reduced risk, Healthcare workers at Medicare facilities could face reduced risk, and Healthcare workers and social service workers could face reduced risk.
Who Bears the Burden and How
Healthcare employers would take on compliance duties, Medicare-participating healthcare facilities would take on compliance duties, and Healthcare and social service employers would take on compliance duties.
Key Provisions
- Directs Secretary of Labor to issue interim final OSHA standard within 1 year on workplace violence prevention for healthcare and social service sectors, followed by a final standard within 42 months.
- Defines scope: covered facilities (hospitals, nursing homes, psychiatric facilities, drug treatment, emergency centers, correctional medical), covered services (home health, emergency transport), covered employers...
- Requires detailed requirements for workplace violence prevention plans, incident investigation, training, recordkeeping (5-year retention), violent incident logs, annual reports, and anti-retaliation protections.
- Creates rules of construction preserving existing rights, not limiting authority, preserving remedies under other laws and collective bargaining agreements.
- Defines definitions of workplace violence types (1-4), threat of violence, alarm, dangerous weapon, and engineering controls for the standard.
Evidence Chain:
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At a Glance
What This Bill Does
The bill directs Secretary of Labor to issue interim final OSHA standard within 1 year on workplace violence prevention for healthcare and social service sectors, followed by a final standard within 42 months, defines scope: covered facilities (hospitals, nursing homes, psychiatric facilities, drug treatment, emergency centers, correctional medical), covered services (home health, emergency transport), covered employers, and requires detailed requirements for workplace violence prevention plans, incident investigation, training, recordkeeping (5-year retention), violent incident logs, annual reports, and anti-retaliation protections.
Key Policy Areas
Healthcare
Primary Purpose
The bill directs Secretary of Labor to issue interim final OSHA standard within 1 year on workplace violence prevention for healthcare and social service sectors, followed by a final standard within 42 months, defines scope: covered facilities (hospitals, nursing homes, psychiatric facilities, drug treatment, emergency centers, correctional medical), covered services (home health, emergency transport), covered employers, and requires detailed requirements for workplace violence prevention plans, incident investigation, training, recordkeeping (5-year retention), violent incident logs, annual reports, and anti-retaliation protections.
Policy Domains
Title I - Workplace Violence Prevention Standard
Identified Gains
- Healthcare workers
- Healthcare workers at Medicare facilities
- Healthcare workers and social service workers
- Physician offices (excluded)
Identified Costs
- Healthcare employers
- Medicare-participating healthcare facilities
- Healthcare and social service employers
- OSHA
Sponsors
Legislative Progress
In CommitteeMs. Baldwin (for herself, Mr. Markey, Mr. Kaine, Mrs. Shaheen, …
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, …
Introduced in Senate
Stakeholder Effects
cui bono?How this legislation distributes effects. Mention counts reflect frequency, not effect magnitude.
Healthcare and social service employers, Healthcare employers, Medicare-participating healthcare facilities
Positive-direction: Physician offices (excluded)
Negative-direction: Healthcare and social service employers, Healthcare employers, Medicare-participating healthcare facilities
Healthcare workers, Healthcare workers and social service workers, Healthcare workers at Medicare facilities
Bill Structure & Actor Mappings
Who is "The Secretary" in each section?
- "the_secretary"
- → Secretary of Labor
- "covered_employer"
- → Employer in healthcare or social service sector operating a covered facility or performing covered services
- "the_secretary"
- → Secretary of Health and Human Services
Key Definitions
Terms defined in this bill
Hospitals, nursing homes, psychiatric facilities, drug treatment centers, community care settings, correctional medical facilities, and others
Home health care, home-based hospice, home-based social work, emergency services and transport
Person employing individuals to work at covered facilities or perform covered services, including contractors and temp agencies
Any act of violence or threat of violence at a covered facility or during covered services, excluding lawful self-defense
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