Washington Administrative Code › Title 296 - Labor and Industries, Department of › Chapter 296-17A - Classifications for Washington workers' compensation insurance › Section 296-17A-7201 - Classification 7201

Current through Register Vol. 24-14, July 15, 2024
7201-00 State government - Patient, resident, or health
				care personnel, N.O.C. (to be assigned only by the hospital
				underwriter)
Applies to state employees who are not otherwise classified who
				provide patient or health care at state-operated hospitals, schools, homes,
				camps, detention or correctional facilities, that are not operated as mental
				health or acute care hospitals as defined in WAC
				296-17-35203(7)
				 and that do not have routine patient lifting and moving exposure. All employees
				who have responsibility for physical or mental health care of patients or
				residents in these facilities are included in this classification. Types of
				employment contemplated by this classification include, but are not limited to,
				doctors, nurses, therapists, attendants, or training and counseling staff who
				provide care and treatment for patients or residents and are required to
				restrain or attend to patients who are potentially aggressive or
				violent.
This classification excludes: Employees who provide patient or
				health care at state-operated mental health or acute care hospitals with a
				fully implemented safe patient handling program who are to be reported
				separately in classification 7200; employees who provide patient or health care
				at state-operated mental health or acute care hospitals that do not have a
				fully implemented safe patient handling program who are to be reported
				separately in classification 7400; law enforcement officers in any capacity who
				are to be separately reported in classification 7103; employees who work in
				state hospitals, schools or correctional facilities, who do not work in patient
				or resident care such as food service, laundry, and janitorial, who are to be
				separately reported in classification 5307; administrative field employees who
				are to be separately reported in classification 5300; or clerical and
				administrative office personnel who are to be separately reported in
				classification 4902. Volunteers are to be reported in classification 6901, and
				law enforcement volunteers in classification 6906.
Statutory Authority:
				  RCW
				  51.16.035,
				  51.16.100, and 2007 c 324.
				  07-24-045, § 296-17A-7201, filed 12/1/07, effective 1/1/08. 07-01-014,
				  recodified as § 296-17A-7201, filed 12/8/06, effective 12/8/06. Statutory
				  Authority:
				  RCW
				   51.16.035 and
				  51.16.100. 06-23-127, §
				  296-17-763, filed 11/21/06, effective 1/1/07; 06-12-075, § 296-17-763,
				  filed 6/6/06, effective 1/1/07. Statutory Authority:
				  RCW
				  51.16.035. 98-18-042, § 296-17-763,
				  filed 8/28/98, effective 10/1/98; 96-12-039, § 296-17-763, filed 5/31/96,
				  effective 7/1/96; 85-24-032 (Order 85-33), § 296-17-763, filed 11/27/85,
				  effective 1/1/86; 85-06-026 (Order 85-7), § 296-17-763, filed 2/28/85,
				  effective 4/1/85; 83-24-017 (Order 83-36), § 296-17-763, filed 11/30/83,
				  effective 1/1/84. Statutory Authority:
				  RCW
				   51.04.030 and
				  51.16.035. 79-12-086 (Order
				  79-18), § 296-17-763, filed 11/30/79, effective
				  1/1/80.