Staff Safety in the Home and Workplace Violence Prevention

Protects staff who work alone in patients’ homes: safety screening at referral and at the first visit, visit tracking and check-in, personal safety practices, the right to leave an unsafe home after making the patient as safe as possible and calling the supervisor, response to aggression, harassment and workplace violence (including discharge for cause and the Ohio Medicaid notice exceptions), driving and weather, safe patient handling, other hazards in homes, and incident reporting, including reporting a work-related death to OSHA within 8 hours and an in-patient hospitalization, amputation or loss of an eye within 24 hours.