Staff Safety in the Home and Workplace Violence Prevention

Sets out how the Agency protects staff who work alone in patients’ homes and on the road: the MIOSHA general duty to keep the workplace free from recognized hazards, home safety risk assessment and flags, visit scheduling, check-in and check-out, escorts and joint visits, safe driving (including Michigan’s hands-free law), managing aggression and leaving unsafe situations, pets, weapons, pests and environmental hazards, safe patient handling, reporting and reviewing incidents, MIOSHA reporting of work-related deaths within 8 hours and in-patient hospitalizations, amputations and losses of an eye within 24 hours, injury records, support for staff, and discharge for cause when the home cannot be made safe.