Workplace Violence Program Workshop

PROGRAM OVERVIEW
Learn how to develop, implement and evaluate effective workplace violence programs for hospitals and outpatient clinics.

TOPICS INCLUDE:

• Collecting, analyzing and presenting workplace-violence-related injury data.
• Developing a comprehensive education plan and knowing what training resources are available.
• Identifying and assessing hazards.
• Implementing and evaluating the program.
• Learning key elements of program improvement and sustainability.
• Understanding workplace violence in health care.
• Using the toolkit.

The focus of this interactive workshop is the development of an effective and sustainable workplace violence program. Attendees will be provided with practical information and tools that will allow them to develop or enhance an existing workplace violence program.

Hospitals are encouraged to send small groups of staff who have responsibilities over the development and management of workplace violence programs. These attendees will participate in group-based work activities throughout the workshop with the goal of developing a draft workplace violence program plan for their facilities.

Workshop content is based on information and tools provided in the Oregon Workplace Safety Initiative Workplace Violence in Healthcare: A Toolkit for Prevention and Management. Work groups will use the toolkit’s comprehensive gap analysis tool to define elements of successful initiatives at their facilities and those that need to be enhanced or implemented.

Overcoming common barriers, such as changing organizational and staff culture when implementing and sustaining a workplace violence program, will be highlighted.

LEARNING OBJECTIVES

• Define how to develop a comprehensive workplace violence program plan that is supported by leadership.
• Describe the key components of a sustainable workplace violence program.
• Develop a workplace violence program plan and gap analysis of workplace violence efforts at your facility.
• Identify common barriers to implementing a workplace violence program and how to address them.
• Identify the data needed to define the scope of workplace violence at your facility and to evaluate a workplace violence program.
• Identify the resources needed to manage, implement and sustain a workplace violence program.

PROGRAM DATES

The workshop consists of six 90-minute virtual sessions. All sessions are scheduled from 2-3:30 p.m. on Thursdays:

June 30 – Introduction, course agenda, goals, background.

July 14 – Creating culture, lessons learned, assessing readiness, defining need.

July 21 – Committee and program management, gap analysis, staff surveys, safety and security assessment.

July 28 – Overview of evidence-based engineering, work practice and administrative controls.

Aug. 4 – Communication/social marketing plan, education and training for staff and other stakeholders, policy and finalize plan.

Aug. 18 – Implementing and evaluating plan, measuring outcomes and process activities and procedures, tips for program sustainability, support.

Lynda Enos, ergonomics consultant for HumanFit, is an occupational health nurse with more than 30 years of work and consulting experience in industrial and health care ergonomics and safety. From 2015-2017, Enos worked with five hospitals in Oregon to develop comprehensive workplace violence programs as part of a project sponsored by the Oregon Association for Hospitals and Health Systems. Through this project, she developed the Oregon Workplace Safety Initiative Workplace Violence in Healthcare: A Toolkit for Prevention and Management.

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Contact Tori Hanson with questions about this event.