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Sheila Arbury1, Natasha R Collins, Janette Magtahas
1Office of Occupational Medicine and Nursing, Directorate of Technical Support and Emergency Management (Arbury, Hodgson), the Directorate of Enforcement Programs, Occupational Safety and Health Administration (Holmes); Federal Bureau of Prisons, Department of Justice (Collins); and West Los Angeles Medical Center (Magtahas).
Objective:
To examine violence inspections at the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA).
Methods:
The authors examined all inspections that involved violence against workers begun by January 1, 2019. They conducted semi-structured interviews with compliance officers who had conducted inspections on a sample of facilities that received General Duty Clause (GDC) citations (n = 22) or Hazard Alert Letters (HALs) (n = 22).
Results:
By January 1, 2019, OSHA initiated 726 "violence" inspections, with 502 (69.1%) in healthcare. In healthcare, 45 (11.1%) resulted in GDC citations and 241 (67.7%) in HALs. GDC facilities received statistically significantly lower scores in 5 of 6 domains examined through semi-structured interviews than HAL facilities. Both groups of facilities had poorly designed recordkeeping systems.
Conclusions:
Health care facilities continue to generate worker complaints with poorly designed violence prevention programs.
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