Workplace Violence

The survey found that most respondents believed that their organizations are extremely or very well prepared for incidents like a fire (75%) and...Read More »

ECRI’s annual report on the top patient safety concerns facing the healthcare industry—and what to do about them—are free online. The 2023 list...Read More »

Gun violence in the United States was responsible for nearly 49,000 deaths in 2021, about ...Read More »

The main provision of the bill would require the federal Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) to issue a standard requiring...Read More »

ECRI, a long-standing patient safety organization in Pennsylvania, has listed verbal and physical violence against healthcare staff as its second-...Read More »

Including the workplace violence worksite assessment in the annual evaluation process will help keep the topic in mind, but also informg...Read More »

Surveyors tend to focus on what is new to the mix, which means you should have completed the first go-round of the workplace analysis relative to...Read More »

With roughly 85% of emergency physicians ...Read More »

(Departmental workplace violence risk assessment courtesy of Bryan Warren, president and chief consultant for WarSec Security; for more...Read More »

The Joint Commission (TJC) unveiled new and revised workplace violence prevention (WPV) requirements effective January 1, 2022. Specifically, it...Read More »