The government will focus on protecting health-care workers from violent patients during a series of meetings between OSHA and small business representatives starting in mid-March.
The meetings are a mandatory step the Occupational Safety and Health Administration must take before the agency can issue a proposed workplace violence prevention rule for the health-care industry.
The agency began work on the rule in 2016 and has been under pressure by lawmakers and health-care unions to issue a standard. The Covid-19 pandemic became OSHA’s primary health-care issue in 2020, delaying progress on the workplace violence rule (RIN:1218-AD08).
OSHA has been ...
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