Violence Prevention

Toolkit Materials

• Contraband Checklist

  This checklist is to assess patients upon entry into a facility for items that may be used to hurt themselves or others.

• OSHA Guidelines for Preventing Workplace Violence for Healthcare & Social Service Workers

  This booklet consists of general guidelines related to violence occurring in a workplace environment, including risk factors to identify violence, assess workplace violence programs, and train and educate staff.

• ASHRM Workplace Violence Toolkit

  This toolkit, created by ASHRM, takes a proactive approach in preventing workplace violence. It addresses violence affecting staff to staff, physician to staff, patient to staff and visitor/family to staff and provides interventions to deal with these occurrences.

• Sentinel Event Alert Workplace Violence

  This sentinel event alert, published by The Joint Commission, was developed to assist organizations in identify risks, implement interventions to reduce adverse events related to violence, train staff accordingly and evaluate processes in place.

• APNA Seclusion & Restraint Standards of Practice

  This resource is provided as a bundle relative to seclusion and restraints standards of practice. It discusses leadership roles in the use of restraint and seclusion therapy, appropriate training of staff and more.

• Patient Observation Policy

  This policy defines the different levels of observation that may be implemented to monitor patients effectively. It discusses the roles and responsibility of staff monitoring patients requiring observation.

• BVC Violence Checklist

  This is a risk scoring tool to assist staff in recognizing a patient at risk for violence. It defines behaviors to assess that may lead to violence and provides staff with an objective scale to identify patients at high risk for violent behavior.

• Sample Policy Workplace Violence

  A sample policy on workplace violence prevention that can be used as a guide in developing your own organizational policy.  This sample is brief and to-the-point, making it easy for staff to understand. 

• Sample Workplace Violence Prevention Plan

  This workplace violence plan sample can be used to assist in developing your own organizational plan.  The sample plan is written from a leadership commitment perspective indicating that prevention of violence is a high priority. 

• Violence: Occupational Hazards in Hospitals

  An educational document provided by NIOSH on workplace violence. The information provided is based on research and covers violence risk factors, prevention strategies and dealing with the consequences of violence. 

• Article: Joint Commission- 7 Ways Hospitals Can Prevent Workplace Violence

  This is a short article, published by Becker’s Hospital Review, which sets forth seven steps to prevent workplace violence. These seven steps were developed from information learned from the Sentinel Event Alert #59 in April 2018.