Summary and Safety-Care Alignment: 

Effective: January 1, 2012 

After the passage of SB 970, all health care employers in the state of Connecticut must establish and have regular meetings with a workplace safety committee. These committees are to be responsible for any issues related to the health and well-being of any employees working for the employer. Additionally, each employee is to participate in a workplace risk assessment to determine any issues that may place the employee at risk while in the workplace.   

Using the results of these assessments, which must be conducted annually, the employer and the workplace committee must develop a workplace violence prevention and response plan. This plan must include training to help reduce incidents of workplace violence, risk reduction efforts, and monitoring systems to report such incidents. 

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 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.