OSHA Workplace Safety

BRADENTON, FL – The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has cited Premier Behavioral Health Solutions of Florida Inc. and UHS of Delaware Inc., the operators of Bradenton-based Suncoast Behavioral Health Center, for failing to protect employees from violence in the workplace. Proposed penalties total $71,137. OSHA responded to a complaint … Read more

GUEST POST FROM STEVE WILDER: If you have employees working in the field…caregivers, social workers, educators, etc…the below article should be of special interest to you.  It reinforces what we have been telling these agencies…they MUST develop plans and programs to keep their employees safe, and provide safety to their employees based on the (hopefully … Read more

OSHA report courtesy of Steve Wilder, a frequent speaker and contributor on security issues: YORK, Pa. – The sexual assault of a home health care worker has resulted in a willful citation against one of the nation’s leading providers of pediatric home health and therapy services for medically frail and chronically ill children, after it … Read more

OSHA PRESS RELEASE: TAMPA, Fla. – After the horrific murder of a Florida health care worker in 2012, an administrative law judge affirmed in June that her employer failed to protect her from workplace violence. Judge Dennis Phillips of the Occupational Safety and Health Review Commission determined Integra Health Management – now operating as Integra … Read more