CA SB1299

Requires hospitals licensed as general acute care or acute psychiatric facilities to adopt workplace violence prevention plans as part of their injury and illness prevention program by July 1, 2016.

Mandates workplace violence prevention plans include annual employee training, incident response and investigation systems, security risk assessments, and employee involvement in plan development.

Requires hospitals to document violent incidents in writing for five years and report incidents to the Division of Occupational Safety and Health within 24 hours for serious incidents (involving injury, weapons, or urgent threats) or 72 hours for other incidents.

Exempts state-operated hospitals under the Department of State Hospitals, Department of Developmental Services, and Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation from these requirements.

Requires the Division of Occupational Safety and Health to post annual public reports on its website containing information about violent incidents at hospitals, inspection outcomes, citations, and prevention recommendations.