Texas Health and Safety Code - HEALTH & SAFETY § 331.004. Workplace Violence Prevention Plan

(1) be based on the practice setting;

(2) adopt a definition of “workplace violence” that includes:

(3) require the facility to provide at least annually workplace violence prevention training or education that may be included in other required training or education provided to the facility's health care providers and employees who provide direct patient care;

(4) prescribe a system for responding to and investigating violent incidents or potentially violent incidents at the facility;

(5) address physical security and safety;

(6) require the facility to solicit information from health care providers and employees when developing and implementing a workplace violence prevention plan;

(7) allow health care providers and employees to report incidents of workplace violence through the facility's existing occurrence reporting systems; and

(8) require the facility to adjust patient care assignments, to the extent practicable, to prevent a health care provider or employee of the facility from treating or providing services to a patient who has intentionally physically abused or threatened the provider or employee.

(1) review and evaluate the workplace violence prevention plan; and

(2) report the results of the evaluation to the governing body of the facility.