{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://www.murphy.senate.gov/newsroom/press-releases/murphy-applauds-department-of-labor-for-new-action-to-protect-healthcare-workers-from-workplace-violence", "MURPHY APPLAUDS DEPARTMENT OF LABOR FOR NEW ACTION TO PROTECT HEALTHCARE WORKERS FROM WORKPLACE VIOLENCE", "2016-12-07", "2016", "2016-12", "Democrat", "House", "CT", "Christopher Murphy", "M001169", "www.murphy.senate.gov", null, null, "legacy", "MURPHY APPLAUDS DEPARTMENT OF LABOR FOR NEW ACTION TO PROTECT HEALTHCARE WORKERS FROM WORKPLACE VIOLENCE\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\tMurphy: \u201cConnecticut doctors and nurses should never have to worry about their safety being threatened at work.\u201d\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\tWednesday, December 7, 2016\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\tWASHINGTON \u2014 U.S. Senator Chris Murphy (D-Conn.), a member of the U.S. Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee, applauded the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) on Wednesday after the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) announced they are looking to create new workplace safety standards to protect healthcare and social assistance employees from workplace violence. OSHA\u2019s announcement comes after Murphy called on DOL Secretary Labor Thomas E. Perez to develop a new workplace safety standard that would protect workers in healthcare settings from workplace violence.\r\n\u201cI called on DOL to take action last year because Connecticut doctors and nurses should never have to worry about their safety being threatened at work,\u201d said Murphy. \u201cI\u2019m glad that OSHA and DOL are finally taking action to learn more about the severity and prevalence of workplace violence in healthcare settings, and I promise to work side by side with them in doing everything we\u00a0can to put an end to it.\u201d\r\nMurphy encourages Connecticut residents to submit comments to OSHA before the April 6, 2017 deadline on issues related to workplace violence in healthcare settings that might be considered in developing the new standard. Comments can be submitted online here. Constituents with questions should contact Murphy\u2019s Hartford office at 860-549-8463.\r\nHealthcare workers are at an increased risk for workplace violence and existing workplace safety standards do not adequately protect individuals working in healthcare settings. From 2002 to 2013, incidents of serious workplace violence (those requiring days off for the injured worker to recuperate) were four times more common in healthcare than in private industry on average. Murphy called on DOL to develop the new workplace safety standard last year in response to reports of violence in hospitals and other healthcare settings around Connecticut.\r\n###", 1, "2026-03-30T12:14:52Z", "2026-03-30T12:14:52Z"]], "columns": ["url", "title", "date", "year", "month", "party", "chamber", "state", "member_name", "bioguide_id", "domain", "scraper", "source", "date_source", "text", "has_text", "collected_at", "updated_at"], "primary_keys": ["url"], "primary_key_values": ["https://www.murphy.senate.gov/newsroom/press-releases/murphy-applauds-department-of-labor-for-new-action-to-protect-healthcare-workers-from-workplace-violence"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 1.8270572181791067, "source": "dwillis/congress-press", "source_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press", "license": "MIT", "license_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press/blob/main/LICENSE"}