Section 216.701 - Definitions for chapterAs used in this chapter:
(1) "Health care worker" means any person, whether licensed or unlicensed, temporarily or permanently employed by, volunteering in, or under contract with a health facility, who has direct contact with a patient of the health facility for purposes of either medical care or emergency response situations potentially involving violence;(2) "Health facility" has the same meaning as in KRS 216B.015;(3) "Workplace" means any property that is owned or leased by the health facility at which the official business of the health care worker is conducted;(4) "Workplace safety" means the process of protecting health care workers' physical well-being from workplace violence; and(5) "Workplace violence" means any act or threat of physical violence, harassment, intimidation, or other threatening disruptive behavior that occurs at the workplace.Added by 2023 Ky. Acts ch. 100,§ 1, eff. 6/28/2023.