workplace violence hazards, threats, and 
work practice controls, the employer’s plan, 
and procedures for confronting, responding 
to, 
and 
reporting 
workplace 
violence 
threats, incidents, and concerns, and em-
ployee rights. 
(vii) Procedures for— 
(I) ensuring the coordination of 
risk assessment efforts, Plan develop-
ment, and implementation of the Plan 
with other employers who have em-
ployees who work at the covered facil-
ity or who are performing the covered 
service; and 
(II) determining which covered 
employer or covered employers shall 
be responsible for implementing and 
complying with the provisions of the 
standard applicable to the working 
conditions over which such employers 
have control. 
(viii) Procedures for conducting the 
annual evaluation under paragraph (6). 
(C) AVAILABILITY OF PLAN.—Each Plan 
shall be made available at all times to the cov-
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ered employees who are covered under such 
Plan. 
(2) VIOLENT INCIDENT INVESTIGATION.— 
(A) IN GENERAL.—As soon as practicable 
after a workplace violence incident, risk, or haz-
ard of which a covered employer has knowledge, 
the employer shall conduct an investigation of 
such incident, risk, or hazard under which the 
employer shall— 
(i) review the circumstances of the in-
cident, risk, or hazard, and whether any 
controls or measures implemented pursu-
ant to the Plan of the employer were effec-
tive; and 
(ii) solicit input from involved employ-
ees, their representatives, and supervisors 
about the cause of the incident, risk, or 
hazard, and whether further corrective 
measures (including system-level factors) 
could have prevented the incident, risk, or 
hazard. 
(B) DOCUMENTATION.—A covered em-
ployer shall 
document 
the 
findings, 
rec-
ommendations, and corrective measures taken 
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for each investigation conducted under this 
paragraph. 
(3) TRAINING AND EDUCATION.—With respect 
to the covered employees covered under a Plan of a 
covered employer, the employer shall provide train-
ing and education to such employees who may be ex-
posed to workplace violence hazards and risks, which 
meet the following requirements: 
(A) Annual training and education shall 
include information on the Plan, including iden-
tified workplace violence hazards, work practice 
control measures, reporting procedures, record 
keeping requirements, response procedures, 
anti-retaliation policies, and employee rights. 
(B) Additional hazard recognition training 
shall be provided for supervisors and managers 
to ensure they— 
(i) can recognize high-risk situations; 
and 
(ii) do not assign employees to situa-
tions that predictably compromise the safe-
ty of such employees. 
(C) Additional training shall be provided 
for each such covered employee whose job cir-
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cumstances have changed, within a reasonable 
timeframe after such change. 
(D) Applicable training shall be provided 
under this paragraph for each new covered em-
ployee prior to the employee’s job assignment. 
(E) All training shall provide such employ-
ees opportunities to ask questions, give feed-
back on training, and request additional in-
struction, clarification, or other followup. 
(F) All training shall be provided in-person 
and by an individual with knowledge of work-
place violence prevention and of the Plan, ex-
cept that any annual training described in sub-
paragraph (A) provided to an employee after 
the first year such training is provided to such 
employee may be conducted by live video if in- 
person training is impracticable. 
(G) All training shall be appropriate in 
content and vocabulary to the language, edu-
cational level, and literacy of such covered em-
ployees. 
(4) RECORDKEEPING
AND
ACCESS
TO
PLAN 
RECORDS.— 
(A) IN GENERAL.—Each covered employer 
shall— 
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(i) maintain for not less than 5 
years— 
(I) records related to each Plan 
of the employer, including workplace 
violence risk and hazard assessments, 
and identification, evaluation, correc-
tion, and training procedures; 
(II) a violent incident log de-
scribed in subparagraph (B) for re-
cording all workplace violence inci-
dents; and 
(III) records of all incident inves-
tigations as required under paragraph 
(2)(B); and 
(ii)(I) make such records and logs 
available, upon request, to covered employ-
ees and their representatives for examina-
tion and copying in accordance with sec-
tion 1910.1020 of title 29, Code of Federal 
Regulations (as such section is in effect on 
the date of enactment of this Act), and in 
a manner consistent with HIPAA privacy 
regulations (defined in section 1180(b)(3) 
of the Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. 
1320d–9(b)(3))) and part 2 of title 42, 
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Code of Federal Regulations (as such part 
is in effect on the date of enactment of this 
Act); and 
(II) ensure that any such records and 
logs that may be copied, transmitted elec-
tronically, or otherwise removed from the 
employer’s control for purposes of this 
clause omit any element of personal identi-
fying information sufficient to allow identi-
fication of any patient, resident, client, or 
other individual alleged to have committed 
a violent incident (including the individ-
ual’s name, address, electronic mail ad-
dress, telephone number, or social security 
number, or other information that, alone 
or in combination with other publicly avail-
able information, reveals such individual’s 
identity). 
(B) VIOLENT
INCIDENT
LOG
DESCRIP-
TION.—Each violent incident log shall— 
(i) be maintained by a covered em-
ployer for each covered facility controlled 
by the employer and for each covered serv-
ice being performed by a covered employee 
on behalf of such employer; 
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(ii) be based on a template developed 
by the Secretary not later than 1 year 
after the date of enactment of this Act; 
(iii) include, at a minimum, a descrip-
tion of— 
(I) the violent incident (including 
environmental risk factors present at 
the time of the incident); 
(II) the date, time, and location 
of the incident, and the names and 
job titles of involved employees; 
(III) the nature and extent of in-
juries to covered employees; 
(IV) a classification of the perpe-
trator who committed the violence, in-
cluding whether the perpetrator was— 
(aa) a patient, client, resi-
dent, or customer of a covered 
employer; 
(bb) a family or friend of a 
patient, client, resident, or cus-
tomer of a covered employer; 
(cc) a stranger; 
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(dd) a coworker, supervisor, 
or manager of a covered em-
ployee; 
(ee) a partner, spouse, par-
ent, or relative of a covered em-
ployee; or 
(ff) any other appropriate 
classification; 
(V) the type of violent incident 
(such as type 1 violence, type 2 vio-
lence, type 3 violence, or type 4 vio-
lence); and 
(VI) 
how 
the 
incident 
was 
abated; 
(iv) not later than 7 days after the 
employer learns of such incident, contain a 
record of each violent incident, which is 
updated to ensure completeness of such 
record; 
(v) be maintained for not less than 5 
years; and 
(vi) in the case of a violent incident 
involving a privacy concern case, protect 
the identity of employees in a manner con-
sistent with section 1904.29(b) of title 29, 
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Code of Federal Regulations (as such sec-
tion is in effect on the date of enactment 
of this Act). 
(C) ANNUAL SUMMARY.— 
(i) COVERED EMPLOYERS.—Each cov-
ered employer shall prepare and submit to 
the Secretary an annual summary of each 
violent incident log for the preceding cal-
endar year that shall— 
(I) with respect to each covered 
facility, and each covered service, for 
which such a log has been maintained, 
include— 
(aa) the total number of vio-
lent incidents; 
(bb) the number of record-
able injuries related to such inci-
dents; and 
(cc) the total number of 
hours worked by the covered em-
ployees for such preceding year; 
(II) be completed on a form pro-
vided by the Secretary; 
(III) be posted for 3 months be-
ginning February 1 of each year in a 
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manner consistent with the require-
ments of section 1904 of title 29, 
Code of Federal Regulations (as such 
section is in effect on the date of en-
actment of this Act), relating to the 
posting of summaries of injury and ill-
ness logs; 
(IV) be located in a conspicuous 
place or places where notices to em-
ployees are customarily posted; and 
(V) not be altered, defaced, or 
covered by other material. 
(ii) SECRETARY.—Not later than 1 
year after the promulgation of the interim 
final standard under section 101(a), the 
Secretary shall make available a platform 
for the electronic submission of annual 
summaries required under this subpara-
graph. 
(5) ANNUAL REPORT.— 
(A) REPORT
TO
SECRETARY.—Not later 
than February 15 of each year, each covered 
employer shall report to the Secretary, on a 
form provided by the Secretary, the frequency, 
quantity, and severity of workplace violence, 
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and any incident response and post-incident in-
vestigation (including abatement measures) for 
the incidents set forth in the annual summary 
of the violent incident log described in para-
graph (4)(C). The contents of the report of the 
Secretary to Congress shall not disclose any 
confidential information. 
(B) REPORT
TO
CONGRESS.—Not later 
than 6 months after February 15 of each year, 
the Secretary shall submit to Congress a sum-
mary of the reports received under subpara-
graph (A). 
(6) ANNUAL EVALUATION.—Each covered em-
ployer shall conduct an annual written evaluation, 
conducted with the full, active participation of cov-
ered employees and employee representatives, of— 
(A) the implementation and effectiveness 
of the Plan, including a review of the violent in-
cident log; and 
(B) compliance with training required by 
each standard described in section 101, and 
specified in the Plan. 
(7) PLAN
UPDATES.—Each covered employer 
shall incorporate changes to the Plan, in a manner 
consistent with paragraph (1)(A)(i) and based on 
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findings from the most recent annual evaluation con-
ducted under paragraph (6), as appropriate. 
(8) ANTI-RETALIATION.— 
(A) POLICY.—Each covered employer shall 
adopt a policy prohibiting any person (including 
an agent of the employer) from the discrimina-
tion or retaliation described in subparagraph 
(B). 
(B) PROHIBITION.—No covered employer 
shall discriminate or retaliate against any em-
ployee for— 
(i) reporting a workplace violence inci-
dent, threat, or concern to, or seeking as-
sistance or intervention with respect to 
such incident, threat, or concern from, the 
employer, law enforcement, local emer-
gency services, or a local, State, or Federal 
government agency; or 
(ii) exercising any other rights under 
this paragraph. 
(C) ENFORCEMENT.—This paragraph shall 
be enforced in the same manner and to the 
same extent as any standard promulgated 
under section 6(b) of the Occupational Safety 
and Health Act (29 U.S.C. 655(b)). 
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