ENA Continues Support for Bills to Combat Workplace Violence

ENA Continues Support for Bills to Combat Workplace Violence

Save Healthcare Workers Act would be a first for health care workers at the federal level

Health care violence prevention bill passes House

(The Center Square) - Legislation to protect health care staff from workplace violence passed the House Tuesday. It promises to enshrine OSHA recommendations into law, supporting hospitals to create violence prevention committees.

OSHA’s head protection bulletin: What it means for PPE selection

On April 12, 2024, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) issued an updated version of its “Head Protection: Safety Helmets in the Workplace” Safety and Health Information Bulletin (SHIB).

(Dan Tri) - After many incidents of medical staff being assaulted, the Ministry of Health requested that Health Departments coordinate with the police to protect staff while on duty.

Emergency nurses are seeing more violence and abuse

Many emergency nurses are attacked on the job. Ryan Oglesby, president of the Emergency Nurses Association, talks about the problem driving some nurses away from the bedside.

AHA-supported bipartisan legislation introduced in House and Senate would protect health care workers from violence

The Save Healthcare Workers Act (H.R.3178/S.1600) — bipartisan legislation that would make it a crime to assault hospital workers, similar to the current federal law protecting airline and airport workers — was introduced May 5 in the House and Senate. Reps. Madeleine Dean, D-Pa., and Mariannette Miller-Meeks, R-Iowa, are the House sponsors, and Sens. Cindy Hyde-Smith, R-Miss., and Angus King, I-Maine, are the Senate sponsors.  In a statement to…