For Professionals Committed to Safe and Caring Workplaces.
The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) released a directive, “Enforcement Procedures for Investigating or InspectingWorkplace Violence Incidents,” [PDF] which establishes procedures for OSHA staff to respond to incidents and complaints of workplace violence, and conduct inspections in industries that are susceptible to violence, including health care.
Read more: OSHA Issues Directive on Workplace Violence Response Procedures…
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Effective August 31, 2011, Manitoba’s Workplace Safety and Health Regulation 107 was amended to include new requirements to protect workers from violence in the workplace. Key changes include the requirement that workplaces providing public services develop and follow a violence prevention policy. According to the legislation, employers must:
Read more: Manitoba Updates Workplace Safety and Health Regulation…
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“Our lives change in various ways when something awful happens. Some of us lose friends. Some of us lose family. Some of us lose loved ones. Some of us are close to people who suffer a loss. And others of us have no direct connection at all to specific painful incidents or events, but may find it nonetheless almost impossible to escape the intense emotional fallout from the pain that may surround us. After traumatic events like this, the pain and fear can linger for a long time.
Read more: A Manager’s Guide to Handling Painful Anniversaries in the Workplace…
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Read the first post in Workplace Violence Prevention: A Prepare Training® Blog, “Tornadoes Bring Awareness to Other Safety Concerns,” which discusses why workplace violence prevention needs to be a higher priority in all organizations.
Read more: Read the First Post in CPI’s New Prepare Training® Blog…
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CPI continues to monitor national legislative activity regarding restraint and seclusion. Here is a summary of the most recent activity.
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Florida HB 1255 revises provisions related to the use of restraint and seclusion on students with disabilities. It requires the local department of education to establish standards for documentation of restraint and seclusion incidents, and to provide them to school districts by a specific date. It also revises provisions related to school district policies and procedures to include monitoring, training, and planning, to reduce the use of restraint and seclusion. The bill became effective on July 1, 2011.
Read more: July 2011 Legislation Activity Update…
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Read Tony Jace’s latest entry in the CPI Executive Blog, “One Year Later: Ontario Bill 168,” about the continued need for training one year after the bill’s passing.
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Bill Badzmierowski, CPI Prepare Training® director of Instructor Services, published “Managing a Crisis for School Security” in the April 2011 issue of American School and University.
This article discusses how crisis management preparations must take into account both human and facility factors. With proper crisis communication planning, you can give people the tools they need to make the best decisions and act most efficiently. While the article speaks to planning efforts in schools and universities, the content is applicable to any organization’s crisis communication planning efforts.
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