Workplace Violence Prevention in Health Care

Current understanding

Federal proposals to require OSHA standards mandating workplace violence prevention plans, incident investigation, and employee training for health care and social service employers. Compliance would be tied to Medicare conditions of participation for hospitals and skilled nursing facilities, giving CMS an enforcement lever alongside OSHA.

Evidence log

• 2025-04-01 — Workplace Violence Prevention for Health Care and Social Service Workers Act: cross-connection with medicare: Uses Medicare conditions of participation as the enforcement mechanism for the OSHA workplace violence standard at hospitals and SNFs. (novelty: 3)

Open questions

Related