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OSHA Offers Workplace Violence Guidance For Home Health Workers
Take heed of new guidance from OSHA on protecting your workers from workplace violence. “Health care and social service workers are almost four times as likely to be injured as a result of violence than the average private sector worker,” the Occupational Safety and Health Administration says in a release.
“It is unacceptable that the people who dedicate their lives to caring for our loved ones often work in fear of injury or death,” said Assistant Sec-retary of Labor for Occupational Safety and Health Dr. David Michaels. “This updated booklet will help employers implement effective measures to reduce or eliminate workplace violence hazards.”
For example: OSHA recommends that “field workers” — its term for workers in patients’ homes — “be required to contact the office after each visit and managers should have procedures to followup if workers fail to do so.”
See the 60-page booklet at www.osha.gov/Publications/osha3148.pdf
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