The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA)'s "Weekend Work" initiative will conduct construction site safety inspections on weekends, when security supervision may be more lax.
The Health Care Workplace Violence Prevention Act would direct OSHA to create a standard that would require healthcare facilities to develop and implement facility- and unit-specific workplace violence prevention plans.
Workplace violence is seldom the freak episode that the media portrays it to be. It rarely involves a mass shooting with a gun, and rarely does it result in a homicide or mass casualty.