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STATE OF OKLAHOMA
1st Session of the 58th Legislature (2021)
SENATE BILL 116 By: Kirt
AS INTRODUCED
An Act relating to workplace violence prevention;
directing the Department of Mental Health and
Substance Abuse Services to ensure all programs have
certain plan; providing for creation of plan;
directing provision of plan upon request; requiring
annual update; directing certain inclu sion; providing
for certain training; directing certain promulgation
of rules; providing for codification; and providing
an effective date.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF OKLAHOMA:
SECTION 1. NEW LAW A new section of law to be c odified
in the Oklahoma Statutes as S ection 2-214.1 of Title 43A, unless
there is created a duplication in numbering, reads as follows:
A. The Department of Mental Health and Substance Abuse Services
shall ensure that, within six (6) months of the effecti ve date of
this act, all programs providing direct services to clients and
operated by or licensed, certified or funded by a division of the
Department have a workplace violence prevention and crisis response
plan for social workers, mental health professionals, volunteers and
all other employees to mitigate the instance o f client-on-clinician
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workplace violence. Each such program shal l provide a copy of the
current plan to any employee of the program who requests it. The
plan shall be updated annually.
B. Workplace violence prevention and crisis response plans may
include:
1. Establishment of a system for central recording of all
incidents of workplace vi olence or threats of workplace violence by
clients against social workers, mental health professiona ls,
volunteers and all other emplo yees providing direct services to
clients;
2. Preparation of a written violence prevention and crisis
response plan that includes measures the program intends to take to
respond to any incident of workplace violence by clients against
social workers, mental health professionals, volunteers and all
other employees providing direct services to clients;
3. Providing each such worker with a copy of the workplace
violence prevention and crisis response plan;
4. Implementing training to educate soc ial workers, mental
health professionals, volunteers and all other employees providing
direct services to clients about workplace violence involving
clients and ways to reduce risks; and
5. Developing and maint aining a violence prevention and crisis
response plan to assist any social workers, mental health
professionals, volunteers and all other employees providing direct
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services to clients who may be victimized by or threatened with
workplace violence by clients.
C. Programs that do not have training in place shall require
their employees to enroll in traini ng to be developed and offered b y
the Department.
D. The Board of Mental Health and Substance Abuse Services
shall promulgate rules to implement the provisions of this act.
SECTION 2. This act shall become effective November 1, 202 1.
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