Now available: Workforce Safety and Well-Being Resource Center
The Joint Commission recognizes that healthcare workers form the backbone of our healthcare system, providing patient care and crucial services despite facing challenges such as workplace violence, burnout, and exposure to hazards. Healthcare organizations need access to high quality resources to help address these challenges. To help organizations in their efforts to promote the safety and well-being of their workforce, The Joint Commission has created a Workforce Safety and Well-Being Resource Center.
This resource center has a collection of resources on the topics of workplace violence prevention, worker well-being, and worker safety. Our goal is to equip healthcare leaders and staff with the tools, strategies, and best practices they need to safeguard the health and well-being of their teams, empowering them to deliver consistently excellent care.
Workplace violence is a serious and growing problem in healthcare. Not only does it impact victims, but it also can adversely impact employee morale, increase staff turnover, reduce productivity, create a fearful organizational culture, and compromise patient care.
The high incidence of workplace violence prompted the creation of new Joint Commission requirements implemented in 2022. These requirements provide a framework to guide organizations in developing effective workplace violence prevention systems, including leadership oversight, policies and procedures, reporting systems, data collection and analysis, post-incident strategies, training, and education to decrease workplace violence.
The Joint Commission understands that many organizations struggle with addressing the complex issues surrounding workforce safety and well-being. The resource center provides freely accessible tools and strategies that organizations can use, regardless of where they are on their journey to address these issues.