LEGISLATIVE NEWS


New Law Requires Connecticut Health Care Employers to Protect Employees from Workplace Violence


On July 13, 2011 Connecticut Governor Dan Malloy signed Public Act No: 11-175 into law. The law requires health care employers to develop and implement plans, policies and training programs designed to prevent and respond to workplace violence. On or before October 1, 2011, health care employers must establish and convene an ongoing workplace


safety committee (comprised of at least 50 percent non-management employees) and conduct an annual work violence risk assessment. In addition, on or before January 1, 2012, and annually thereafter, health care employers must work with the workplace safety committee to develop and implement a written workplace violence prevention and response plan based on the findings of the risk assessment. Health care employers also will be required, to the extent practicable, to adjust patient care assignments if requested by a health care employee as a result of a patient who intentionally physically abused or threatened the employee. The new law also requires health care employers, effective October 1, 2011, to maintain detailed records on incidents of workplace violence and, upon request, report to the Department of Public Health the number and location of any workplace violence incidents that occurred on the employer’s premises. Also effective October 1, 2011, health care employers must report certain incidents of workplace violence against a health care employee performing his or her job duties to the employer’s local law enforcement agency within 24 hours after the incident.


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