Summary of Original Version

Create new sections of KRS Chapter 216 to define terms; obligate the cabinet for Health and Family Services to develop guidelines for health facilities conducting workplace safety assessments and creating a workplace safety plan; require the cabinet to audit health facilities for compliance; require health facilities to create a workplace safety assessment and a workplace safety plan; obligate health facilities to provide trainings on the workplace safety assessment and plan; obligate health facilities to develop internal reporting requirements for incidents of workplace violence; create a new section of KRS Chapter 344 to prohibit discrimination against a health care worker that reports an incident of workplace violence.

Summary of Amendment: House Committee Substitute 1

Summary Retain original provisions and add a subsection to require the Cabinet for Health and Family Services to recognize that a health facility is in compliance with the provisions of this act if the health facility falls into one of four categories.