Abstract | Health Care Workplace Violence Prevention: One State’s Journey

Violence against health care workers continues to rise across the country. The Bureau of Labor Statistics reports that in 2018, workers in the health care and social service sectors experienced the highest rates of workplace violence-related injuries. Several national organizations and oversight agencies have implemented violence prevention initiatives and published risk assessment tools, violence prevention toolkits and standards and/or regulations (See Figure 1). 

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