STANDARDS AND POLICY

New Mexico

• 11.5.6 NMAC, Convenience Store Regulations [PDF - 32 KB]

New York

• New York State Public Employer Workplace Violence Prevention Law [PDF - 23 KB]. Labor Law Article 2, effective March 2007. Public employers must develop and implement programs to prevent and minimize workplace violence.
• 12 NYCRR Part 800.6, Public Employer Workplace Violence Prevention Programs - regulation effective April, 2009 [PDF - 64 KB]
• Compliance Directive for Workplace Violence [PDF - 87 KB]

Washington

• WAC 296-832, Late Night Retail Workers Crime Prevention standard
• WISHA Regional Directive 5.05, Violence in the Workplace [PDF - 135 KB] (Nov. 2010) . Provides guidance to DOSH staff on applying existing standards to workplace violence.
• WISHA Regional Directive 5.07, Workplace Violence Prevention in Health Care [PDF - 50 KB] (July 2006)

RESOURCES

California

• Cal/OSHA Guidelines for Workplace Security (1995). Characterizes establishments, profiles and motives of agent or assailant, and identifies preventive measures by type. In CA, 60% of workplace homicides involved a person entering a small late-night retail establishment. Non-fatal assaults to service providers, especially health care providers, may be most prevalent type of workplace violence resulting in injury.
• Guidelines for Security & Safety of Health Care and Community Service Workers (1998)
• Injury and Illness Model Program for Workplace Security (1995)

Indiana

• Violence in the Workplace [DOC - 84 KB] (2006) Includes charts on numbers of fatal and non-fatal assaults in IN, 1997-2006.
• Workplace Violence course (#2433), 3 – 3.5 hours course (#2433), 3 - 3.5 hours
• Indiana Labor Insider: Safety Alert Article Workplace Violence Prevention Program [PDF - 1 MB]. This is a newsletter article.

Iowa

• Violence-Free Workplace Policy Appendix [PDF - 37 KB] (2000)
• State of Iowa Violence-Free Workplace Policy (2003)

Michigan

• Grant awarded to: Crises Management Center for Workplace Violence Prevention Inc.. This company was awarded a grant to compile and provide training and instructional videos on workplace violence emergency management, to maintain and host an on on-line resource center and to conduct seminars and presentations.

Minnesota

• Workplace Violence Prevention Guide (29 p.) [PDF - 106 KB]
• Preventing Workplace Violence (2 p.) [PDF - 21 KB]. This pamphlet includes solutions.

New York

• Model Plan for Workplace Violence Prevention [PDF - 123 KB]
• Workplace Security Checklist [DOC - 54 KB]
• Workplace Violence Rule Requirements [PPT - 124 KB] (28 slides)
• Workplace Violence PDF [PDF - 589 KB] (35 pages)

Oregon

• Publication (12 p.): Violence in the workplace: Can it happen here? [PDF - 644 KB]
• Small Business Class (1 hour): 702- Violence in the Workplace (33 p. workbook)
• Health care assault log information
  -- Legislative report [PDF - 500 KB] (28 p.) on 2008 health care assault log data
  -- House Bill 2022 (2007) ) requires hospitals, ambulatory surgical centers, and hospitals with home health care services to implement strategies to protect healthcare employees from acts of violence in the workplace. Requires reporting of health care assaults.
• Videos/DVDs (18 total) on violence in the workplace are available from OR-OSHA Resource Center secure web site
• Violence in the Workplace: Accepted Disabling Claims due to Assaults and Violent Acts, Oregon, 2001-2005 [PDF - 907 KB] (26 p.)

Virginia

• Workplace Violence, Human Resources Policy and Procedure Manual [PDF - 162 KB], May 2002.

Washington

• Workplace violence prevention
• Workplace Violence in Health Care Settings
   

Wyoming

• Workplace Violence Prevention [DOC - 69 KB] (Model Program)

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