176 Healthcare: Workplace Stress and Violence

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Prevention Strategies for Employers

A violence prevention program needs to contain multiple components.

To prevent violence in hospitals, employers should develop a safety and health program. Employers should evaluate this program periodically. Although risk factors for violence are specific for each hospital and its work scenarios, employers can follow general prevention strategies.

Violence Prevention Program

The prevention program should:

Be made available to all employees, including managers and supervisors, and all employees should receive specific training concerning its content and implementation.
Track its progress in reducing work-related assaults.
Reduce the severity of injuries sustained by employees.
Decrease the threat to worker safety.
Reflect the level and nature of the threat faced by employees.

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1-3. Who should have access to the violence prevention program?

Only management and supervisors

All employees

Patients

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