Workplace Violence Prevention Standard (OSHA) – Health Care & Social Service Workers

Current understanding

To be populated as evidence accumulates.

2025-04-28 — Protecting America’s Workers Act: cross-connection with protecting-americas-workers-act: Expanded OSHA jurisdiction over state/local government workers would broaden the reach of workplace violence standards to public health-care and social service employees. (novelty: 3)
2025-04-01 — Workplace Violence Prevention for Health Care and Social Service Workers Act: HR2531 (Workplace Violence Prevention for Health Care and Social Service Workers Act, introduced) would direct DOL/OSHA to issue a mandatory workplace-violence prevention standard requiring covered health care and social service employers to adopt written prevention plans, investigate incidents, and train employees, and would condition Medicare participation for hospitals and skilled nursing facilities on compliance. (novelty: 3)