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Committee hears bill to strengthen investigations, annual updates of healthcare workplace-violence plans
Summary
Second Substitute House Bill 11 62 would require timely investigations of all workplace violence incidents in covered healthcare settings, annual plan reviews, and submission of investigation summaries to safety committees; bill supporters include nurses, hospitals and DSHS collaboration was reported.
Second Substitute House Bill 11 62, which would tighten requirements for workplace-violence plans in certain health-care settings, was read and discussed before the Labor & Commerce Committee.
Staff explained that current law obliges covered healthcare settings to maintain workplace-violence plans and to review the frequency of violent incidents annually. The proposed bill would require a timely investigation of every workplace-violence incident, with summaries of the…
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