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Is Your Home Care Agency Prepared for Workplace Violence Compliance?

Connecticut home care agencies are now facing increased expectations around employee safety, client intake risk information, workplace violence prevention, staff training, documentation, and leadership accountability.

Connecticut Compliance Requirements

Public Act 24-19 created new safety obligations for home health care and home health aide agencies, including client intake safety screening, sharing relevant risk information with assigned staff, annual health and safety training, monthly staff safety checks, and reporting of certain abuse or violence incidents.

Where Agencies Get Stuck

• Treating compliance as a paperwork project instead of an operational safety system.
• Having policies that staff do not understand, use, or trust.
• Failing to document safety concerns before they become incidents.
• Leaving supervisors without a clear response framework.
• Waiting until something happens before building a prevention plan.

Questions Every Agency Leader Should Ask

• Do we have a clear process for identifying client or location-based safety risks?
• Are employees trained to recognize escalation before it becomes a crisis?
• Do supervisors know exactly what to do when staff report concerns?
• Can we prove our agency is reviewing safety issues every month?
• Would our documentation hold up if an incident occurred tomorrow?

How Prepare To Act Helps

Prepare To Act helps agencies turn workplace violence compliance into a practical safety system. We support agencies with staff training, supervisor response frameworks, intake safety tools, documentation templates, monthly review systems, policy support, and leadership guidance.

The goal is not to create another binder no one reads. The goal is to help leadership build a process staff understand, supervisors can follow, and agencies can document.

This document is for general safety and compliance awareness only and is not legal advice.