KRS § 216.701 Definitions for chapter.

216.701 Definitions for chapter. As 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. Effective: June 29, 2023 History: Created 2023 Ky. Acts ch. 100, sec. 1, effective June 29, 2023. Legislative Research Commission Note (6/29/2023). Under the authority of KRS 7.136(1), the Reviser of Statutes has renumbered certain subsections in this statute during codification to place the terms in alphabetical order. The words in the text were not changed.