Summary:

Effective: July 1, 2023

With the passage of SB 1311, Arizona now requires all healthcare employers to develop, implement, and maintain a written workplace violence prevention plan. In addition this plan being posted regularly throughout the workplace, this plan must include trainings, investigative aspects, and allow for specific reporting requirements. Plans must be evaluated annually. 

How Safety-Care aligns: Numerous health care organizations throughout the United States and Canada rely upon QBS and our Safety-Care training to provide their staff members with the training they need to help maintain a safe and healthy environment. Safety-Care provides a comprehensive, supportive approach to incident prevention, de-escalation, and management. Your Staff will learn practical strategies for helping students that use evidence-based practices consistent with PBIS (Positive Behavior Interventions and Supports) and ABA (Applied Behavior Analysis).

Safety-Care can meet the requirements of SB 1311 in the following ways: 

Applies to all “Health Care Employers” (HCEs)- every licensed healthcare institution that is licensed as a hospital, freestanding emergency services facility or urgent care facility and that has more than 50 employees.

• Does not apply to AZ State Hospital or any other license facility under the Jurisdiction of the Superintendent of the AZ State Hospital

By July 1, 2023, each Health Care Employer must develop, implement and maintain a written workplace violence prevention plan that includes the following:

How Safety-Care aligns: Safety-Care’s written procedures can be utilized as a format used to promote safety in the workplace. Safety-Care is uniquely designed to provide trainees with the skills to assess potential crises, how de-escalate these situations, and how to respond if the situation is elevated. Our trainings are trauma-informed and focus on modifying behavior to prevent dangerous outcomes.  

• Components specifically tailored to conditions & hazards of employer’s sites and patient-specific risk factors  

How Safety-Care aligns: Safety-Care can be taught to all levels of staff, from administration down to volunteers. Additionally, our core trainings can be supplemented with unique add-on trainings focused on specific needs and professions.    

• Requires conspicuous posting of signs that provide notice that assault on a health care worker may be prosecuted as a felony  

• Reporting, incident, response & post incident investigation procedures  

How Safety-Care aligns: Part of Safety-Care training is reporting of physical incidents.  This information can be collected and reported in our “Trainer Connect” system, which all persons certified in Safety-Care have access.

• Requires HCEs to provide info to workers about their ability to report assaults & incidents & to assist reporting upon request  

Each HCE must make its violence prevention plan available at all times to workers & contractors  

After a violence incident report is reported, HCE shall investigate circumstances, solicit input from involved workers & supervisors, determine whether corrective measures could have prevented incident and document findings.  

How Safety-Care aligns: Information gathered in Trainer Connect can be used to supplement investigations. Additionally, Safety-Care is frequently updated with the latest practices in PBIS, ABA, and with input from practitioners to ensure that those trained in the program are as up to date as possible in improving behavior and safety.  

Each HCE shall provide training and education to its health care workers who may be exposed to workplace violence and risks  

How Safety-Care aligns: Safety-Care uses a Train the Trainer model allowing each district to quickly develop their own core of trainers qualified in the most current behavioral interventions and de-escalation strategies. Our Master Trainers can have up to ten (10) staff ready to train in as little as three days. Safety-Care is geared towards ensuring that all trainees are familiar with a single response system and can respond in-kind to numerous situations regardless of the professional setting.  

HCEs must maintain records regarding violence prevention plans & an incident log recording all violence incidents & records of investigations  

How Safety-Care aligns: Trainer Connect provides a unique repository of records on incidents, trainings and additional information that can be used to improve safety in your facility.