SB 5228 - DIGEST

(SEE ALSO PROPOSED 1ST SUB)

     Requires health care settings to conduct a security and safety assessment and, using the assessment, develop and implement by July 1, 1998, an appropriate workplace violence prevention plan with measures to reasonably protect personnel, patients, and visitors from acts of violent behavior.

     Provides that failure of a specified health care setting to establish a workplace violence prevention plan makes the health care setting subject to notice or citation under chapter 49.17 RCW.