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Hazard Vulnerability Assessment (HVA) Tool
Use this HVA tool to assist your multidisciplinary group in assessing and prioritizing exercises for potential hazards/risk.
NFPA 99 2021 Risk Assessment Tool
This risk assessment tool has been developed to help health care facility staff comply with the risk-based, patient-focused approach described by the 2021 version of NFPA 99: Health Care Facilities Code.
EPSS Weekly Inspection Checklist
Compliance Tools
Weekly EPSS inspections are vital for hospital safety, as recommended by NFPA 110 (2013). Use this ASHE checklist.
Advocacy Issue: SAVE Act
Hospitals, health systems and their staff support enactment of a federal law that would protect health care workers from violence and intimidation, just as current federal law protects airline and airport workers. Congress should enact the bipartisan Save Healthcare Workers Act (SAVE) (H.R. 3178/S. 1600), which provides protections similar to those for flight crews, flight attendants and airport workers.
Advocacy Issue: Workplace Violence
Since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, health care workers across the nation have experienced a sharp increase in incidences of workplace violence, with no sign that this trend is receding. Despite the diligent efforts of hospitals and health systems to prevent violence, health care workers remain five times more likely than any other type of worker to be physically attacked on the job, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
ILSM-ICRA precaution daily monitoring checklist
Compliance Tools
Members download this tool. Click here to join ASHE!
New AHA Report Finds Workplace and Community Violence Costs Hospitals More than $18 Billion Annually
The AHA today released a new, comprehensive report that measures the substantial financial resources hospitals and health systems spend on preventing and responding to violence in their facilities and communities.
Fact Sheet: Workplace Violence and Intimidation, and the Need for a Federal Legislative Response
For the past decade, the health care field has experienced a sharp increase in workplace violence.