Education, Prevention, and Mitigation
for Violence in the Workplace
Workplace Violence Prevention Standards
of The Joint Commission
Exposure to workplace violence can impair effective patient care and lead to psychological distress, job dissatisfaction, absenteeism, high turnover, and higher costs. The high incidence of workplace violence prompted The Joint Commission to create new accreditation requirements.

The new and revised Joint Commission standards provide a framework to guide hospitals 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.

Effective January 1, 2022, new and revised workplace violence prevention standards will apply to all Joint Commission-accredited hospitals and critical access hospitals

AVADE® Workplace Violence Prevention Training programs are designed to educate, prevent, and mitigate the risk of violence to workers in the corporate and healthcare settings.

The standards include:
Environment of Care: The hospital manages safety and security risks. 
  • AVADE® Compliance Alignment Example: The AVADE® Assessment & Analysis Tool can assist a Healthcare agency in conducting an ongoing review of their Workplace Violence Prevention policies and procedures by examining administrative, behavioral, and environmental factors. The AVADE® Basic & Advanced Instructor Train-the-Trainer courses empower AVADE® Instructors to become their agency subject matter experts by analyzing their workplace violence policies & procedures and understanding the complexities of workplace violence.

Environment of Care: The hospital collects information to monitor conditions in the environment.
  • AVADE® Compliance Alignment Example: AVADE® Training assists the designated individual and multidisciplinary team specifically by training employees in best practices for Post-Incident Responses and Documentation.

Human Resources: Staff participate in ongoing education and training. 
  • AVADE® Compliance Alignment Example: AVADE® Level I, II, and III training is designed to be flexible enough to allow healthcare workers interactive opportunities to understand their healthcare agency’s Workplace Violence Prevention Policies & Procedures as well as what constitutes an incident of workplace violence.

Leadership: Leaders create and maintain a culture of safety and quality throughout the
hospital. 
  • AVADE® Compliance Alignment Example: The AVADE® Assessment & Analysis Tool can assist the designated individual responsible for the Workplace Violence Prevention program in identifying existing gaps in their current program. The AVADE® Assessment & Analysis Tool is designed to be used as an ongoing tool for a multidisciplinary team to evaluate the effectiveness of the hospital’s workplace violence prevention program.

AVADE® Training is the most current, comprehensive, and relevant workplace violence prevention training program available which exceeds the requirements of The Joint Commission's WPV standard.  

Click here to read/download an overview/crosswalk of the Joint Commission's Workplace Violence Standards and how AVADE® Workplace Violence Prevention Training aligns with this compliance requirement.
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