Taskforce promotes workplace safety
Survey results drive safety improvements across UF Health
Safety.
Working in health care keeps this word top of mind. While many of our efforts focus on patient safety, members of the UF Health Violence Prevention Taskforce, or VPT, are brainstorming ways to protect our faculty and staff.
Since 2014, this multidisciplinary team has been tackling personal safety concerns head-on. They are developing and implementing solutions that address issues across the organization. Clinical and nonclinical staff members represent the diversity of roles across UF Health. Our Workplace Violence Survey results show an increase in employee satisfaction with workplace safety efforts.
Your survey feedback allows the taskforce to identify needs and provide solutions to better support and protect you as a member of our UF Health family. Taskforce members have used survey results to revise our Violence Prevention and Response (CP01.018) and Contraband (CP01.056) core policies; implement mandatory trainings for clinical staff, which will soon expand to nonclinical staff; and develop the UF Health Protect App.
For more information, visit Nursing on the Bridge and search “Workplace Safety.”
Violence Prevention Taskforce members used the results from this summer’s survey to create four themed workgroups with the goals listed below:
- Policies/Procedures: Addresses communication policy availability and awareness, public access to hospital areas and employee protection
- Education: Addresses policies and procedures, Crisis Prevention Institute training measures and employees who have not received training
- Operations: Improves available security resources and security visibility on campus
- Facility: Addresses workplace design, public access, parking security and calling for help
