1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Workplace Violence Prevention for Health Care and Social Service Workers Act . 2. Findings Congress finds the following: (1) In a 2016 report entitled, Workplace Safety and Health: Additional Efforts Needed to Help Protect Health Care Workers from Workplace Violence , the Government Accountability Office reported over 730,000 cases of health care workplace assaults over the 5-year span from 2009 through 2013, based on Bureau of Justice Statistics data. (2) The health care and social service industries experience the highest rates of injuries caused by workplace violence. Nurses and nursing, psychiatric, home health, and personal care aides all are at high risk. (3) The Bureau of Labor Statistics reports that health care and social service workers suffered 69 percent of all workplace violence injuries caused by persons in 2016 and are nearly 5 times as likely to suffer a workplace violence injury than workers overall. (4) According to a survey of 3,500 American emergency physicians conducted by the American College of Emergency Physicians, 47 percent of emergency room doctors have been physically assaulted at work, and 8 in 10 report that this violence is affecting patient care. (5) Workplace violence in health care and social service sectors is increasing. Bureau of Labor Statistics data show that private sector injury rates of workplace violence in health care and social service sectors increased by 63 percent between 2006 and 2016. Due to under-reporting, actual injury rates from workplace violence are widely recognized to be higher than reported levels. (6) Violence against workers in health care settings is most commonly due to assaults by patients or clients, or persons accompanying patients or clients. (7) The Occupational Safety and Health Administration has issued Guidelines for Preventing Workplace Violence for Healthcare and Social Service Workers , however, this guidance is not enforceable. Absent an enforceable standard, employers lack mandatory