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Mass. House advances bill requiring health care employers to adopt workplace-violence prevention programs
Summary
The Massachusetts House voted 158-0 to pass to engrossment House Bill 4767, which would require facility-specific risk assessments, written prevention plans, training, incident reporting to DPH and district attorneys, and penalties and paid leave for assaulted health care workers.
BOSTON — The Massachusetts House of Representatives advanced House Bill 4767 on a unanimous roll-call vote on Nov. 20, moving the measure to be engrossed after floor debate and the adoption of a clarifying amendment.
The bill, sponsored on the floor by Mr. Lawn of Watertown, would require health care employers to conduct annual, facility-specific risk assessments developed jointly with employees and labor representatives, adopt written violence-prevention plans, provide employee training, and create in-house crisis-response procedures. It mandates annual incident reporting to the Department of Public Health and district attorneys and strengthens criminal penalties for assaults on health care workers. The measure also includes paid leave for employees seriously injured by an assault while performing their duties and protections allowing employees to use workplace or union…
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