OH HB681

Health care setting employers must develop and implement a workplace violence prevention plan within six months, review it every three years, and submit the plan to the director of health.

Employers must provide workplace violence prevention training to employees, volunteers, contracted security personnel, and staffing agency workers within 90 days of hire and annually thereafter, covering topics such as de-escalation techniques, restraint use, and reporting procedures.

Employers must record and report all workplace violence incidents to the director of health within 72 hours, including details about the victim, perpetrator, type of violence, and employer response; records must be retained for at least five years.

The director of health must establish systems for employers to submit incident records and for employees to report violations, prepare annual statistical reports available to the public, and submit five-year summaries to legislative committees beginning five years after enactment.

Employers who violate the chapter face fines and potential license revocation (for licensed facilities) or civil penalties enforced by the attorney general (for unlicensed facilities); employees cannot be discriminated against for reporting workplace violence.