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CHRO Workplace Violence Peer Benchmarks: Where the Field Is Moving
Key Takeaways The question behavioral health CHROs keep asking each other is simple: what are other organizations actually doing about workplace violence and union safety pressure? Not what they’re planning.…
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What Enterprise Health System CTOs Are Requiring for Power Resilience—And Why You Should Too
Key Takeaways The Emerging Standard: What Peer Organizations Now Require Enterprise health systems have begun requiring standalone power resilience as a procurement prerequisite—not a premium feature. In documented RFP cycles…
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4-Hour Power Outage. Zero Downtime. What Standalone Safety Architecture Actually Looks Like
Key Takeaways During a 4-hour power outage at a Pennsylvania health system, the staff duress infrastructure continued operating without interruption. No coverage gaps. No manual workarounds. No scramble to protect…
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15 States, 9 Deadlines in 2025: Your Multi-State Violence Prevention Compliance Map
Key Takeaways The 2025 Enforcement Wave: What Changed Until 2024, most state workplace violence laws were advisory or lacked enforcement teeth. That’s over. Ohio became the first state to sign…
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19.2% of Nurses Leave After Workplace Violence. That’s Your Shortage.
Key Takeaways The workforce shortage conversation in behavioral health has been framed wrong for years. The dominant narrative centers on pipeline: not enough nursing school graduates, too few psychiatry residencies,…
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Every Nurse You Lose to Violence Costs $61,110. Here’s What Stops the Bleeding.
Key Takeaways Your behavioral health nurses absorb more violence than almost any other role in healthcare. They’re also among your highest-turnover positions. These two facts are connected, and the connection…
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The CNO’s Strategic Guide to Workplace Safety: Your Best Retention Strategy
To the Enterprise CNO, the pressure is immense. You are tasked with leading staff, ensuring patient care, and managing budget, all while facing industry-high rates of violence across your network.…
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Healthcare Workplace Violence Prevention Laws by State
TLDRWhile federal guidelines like those from OSHA provide a foundation for WVP, a growing number of states — including California, New York, Illinois, Texas, Ohio, Oregon, and Washington — have…
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An Analysis of Workplace Violence Statistics in Healthcare
In February 2021, landmark legislation was introduced to the Senate directing the Secretary of Labor to issue occupational safety and health standards across the healthcare and social service industries. Its…
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How ROAR’s Wireless Panic Button Partnership with RapidSOS Safeguards Employees with Best-in-Class Technology
Connecting Life-Saving Data to 911 with a Push of a Button Over the past several years workplace violence incidents have increased at an alarming rate. In a wide-ranging study conducted…