Tell your Senator: Prevent Workplace Violence Against Health Care Workers!

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The Workplace Violence Prevention for Health Care and Social Service Workers Act, or S. 4182, was officially reintroduced in the U.S. Senate in May. The bill would mandate that OSHA create a federal standard requiring health care and social service employers to develop and implement a comprehensive workplace violence prevention plan.

Health care and social service workers face extremely high rates of workplace violence, and these dangerous conditions are worsening. Since March of last year, nurses have reported a 119 percent rise in workplace violence.

S. 4182 is a critical opportunity to help protect health care workers and patients across the country with an enforceable, national workplace violence prevention OSHA standard. We are writing letters to the U.S. Senate urging them to pass S. 4182 in the Senate and send it to President Biden for his signature.

Use the form below to tell your Senator to pass S.4182. Thank you for standing with us!

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I am writing to you today about critical legislation in the U.S. Senate that would protect health care workers and patients from violence in health care and social service settings. Recent incidents like the tragic mass shooting at a health care facility in Tulsa, Oklahoma underscore the urgency of this issue.

Workplace violence is a significant and growing threat to frontline care providers nationwide. Nurses report being punched, kicked, bitten, beaten, and threatened with violence as they provide care—and some have even been stabbed or shot. Since March of last year, nurses have reported a 119 percent rise in workplace violence.

In most states, there are no enforceable requirements for health care employers to have workplace violence prevention plans. Employers frequently ignore reports of workplace violence, or even blame health care workers.

The Workplace Violence Prevention for Health Care and Social Service Workers Act (S. 4182) would mandate that OSHA create a federal standard requiring health care and social service employers to develop and implement a comprehensive workplace violence prevention plan. This same bill already passed the House last year with strong bipartisan support, and President Biden supports it. The Senate should pass it without delay.

Our nation’s health care workers deserve to be safe when they go to work to save our lives and care for our most vulnerable. I urge you to sign on as a co-sponsor and commit to passing S. 4182 immediately.