Ambulance workers are increasingly being verbally abused and physically attacked. Two paramedicine researchers explain how we ...

Two cases before the Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals could place limits on the Occupational Safety and Health Administration’s (OSHA) ability to cite employers for failing to prevent workplace violence ...

(WAVY) — A new bill taking effect this summer aims to prevent workplace violence against healthcare workers. There have been several incidents over the years of patients acting aggressively towards ...

California’s SB553, the nation’s first comprehensive and multi-industry workplace violence prevention law, has been in effect for almost a year. Many other states are following suit with their own ...

Workers in the healthcare industry face critical gaps in protection from workplace violence. Nurses in hospitals are attacked every day with 1 in 4 nurses being assaulted annually. Senate Bill 240, ...

Employers in California are required to review their workplace violence prevention plan annually, when a deficiency is observed or becomes apparent, or after a workplace violence incident.

Janice McCaffrey has been a nurse for 40 years, most of which she spent working in critical care. But about a year ago, she was the one in need of emergency care after she was attacked by a patient ...

Terry Bartmus, DNP, has been bitten, hit, choked, and threatened since she started working in the emergency department in Las Vegas in 2009. Worse, there’s been no improvement in the violence. “I ...