Summary and Safety-Care Alignment: 

Effective Date: September 30, 2023

Last Updated: December, 2024

Senate Bill 553 was signed by the Governor and filed with the Secretary of State on September 30, 2023. The legislation requires employers establish, implement, and maintain a workplace violence prevention program.   

These programs are required to have employers record information regarding violent incidents, defines such incidents, and offer training to employees. This training must be offered to employees in a format that is appropriate to the educational level, literacy and language of the employees. Additionally, the training must be conducted annually and that it include opportunities for question and answers.   

How Safety-Care aligns: Numerous 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 Departmental Requirements in the following ways: 

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

Safety-Care requires users to comply with all legal requirements, including reporting to involved parties within specified time frames. All use of physical management procedures are to be fully documented. Following an incident, a debriefing process allows staff to discuss what happened and what has been learned so that new interventions can be developed to better prevent similar incidents in the future. This debriefing procedure allows staff to participate productively in follow-up meetings. These meetings and debriefing processes can supplement the current requirements on incident recording set in statute by SB 553.