BluWater Risk Management

07/15/2024

Do you want your nurses focused on your needs, or constantly looking over their back?

It's worse than it's ever been. That's what Dr. Robert Corona, the CEO of Upstate Medical University, says about workplace violence against health care workers.

07/04/2024

Have a safe and happy Fourth of July

06/24/2024

It is not just teachers, workplace violence is all around us and something has to change

Assaults have ratcheted up since the return to in-person learning, adding to broader concerns about safety in schools.

06/20/2024

Indiana hospitals launch "Be Kind" campagin to help reduce the spread of workplace violence in healthcare

IHA says around 25,000 incidents against healthcare employees are reported a year, but some employees don't report incidents.

06/19/2024

This problem is not exclusive to Virginia. This is a problem across the entire U.S.

Data indicates the actual number of workplace incidents is actually under reporter, said Julian Walker.

06/18/2024

As the vulnerability healthcare workers face from visitors and patients casts a dark shadow over their daily routines, AI seeks to help rescue those we depend on.

While AI can be instrumental in bolstering security at our facility's entryways, responsible usage is key.

06/17/2024

Healhtcare workers are 5 times more likely to become the victims of workplace violence than in any other profession

In the absence of federal laws to address violence against healthcare workers, most state legislatures have taken up the cause on their own.

06/16/2024

Happy Father's Day

06/13/2024

Employees have good reason to be concerned about safety at work

Workplace violence—defined by OSHA as both physical violence and harassment, intimidation, and threats—impacts nearly two million U.S. workers every year.

06/12/2024

Too many healthcare workers don’t feel safe on the job, and don’t have confidence in their organization’s violence prevention policies.

As part of our ongoing series of stories looking at safety in hospitals, Tony Jace of the Crisis Prevention Institute discusses ways to help protect staff and support workers.

06/10/2024

Frontline healthcare workers want to save lives and care for patients—workplace aggression isn't part of the job they sign up for

Most alarms triggered by hospital staff’s wearable safety alert systems occurred outside of the emergency department and more often during weekdays, non-holidays, surges of COVID-19 and even during | Aggregate data from 200,000 workers' wearable duress systems suggest emerging or active violent in...

06/06/2024

Workplace violence in the nursing profession is a real and prevalent problem, and unreported and underreported is keeping the true scope of the problem obscured

Learn why the vast majority of workplace violence events that happen in healthcare are not reported, and what you can do to change this trend.