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House passes health employee violence protection bill
House passes health employee violence protection bill
Matti Gellman
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The U.S. House of Representatives on Friday passed a bill that will create a minimum standard for health employers plans to combat violence against their workers.
In a 254-166 vote, lawmakers approved basing the standard on voluntary guidelines created by the Occupational Safety and Health Administration in 2015. Under the bill, employers would need to create training programs, investigation procedures and track violent incidents against workers, with more specific regulations coming through OSHA rulemaking over the next three years.
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Allegra Boverman
When Walter Riley was first asked about Villa Crest Nursing Home in Manchester the place where his fiancé, 68-year-old Marge Gardner, worked as a housekeeper before she died of Covid-19 he could scarcely contain his bitterness.
“The bastards,” he said. “They didn’t give her adequate protection. They didn’t have instructions on how to fit it. They never should have sent her in those rooms, knowing her age and her condition. They knew she had diabetes.”
In December, the U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration, or OSHA, fined the nursing home $20,820 for two violations: “The employer did not ensure that an effective respiratory protection program was established with worksite-specific procedures for respirator use … such as but not limited to fit testing and medical evaluations,” and it did not report the death after eight hours. Riley, who filed the OSHA complaint two months after Gardner died on June 11, called it a “cover-up.