Workplace safety.

(1) Existing law generally grants to the Division of Occupational Safety and Health jurisdiction over every employment and place of employment necessary to adequately enforce and administer all laws, standards, and orders. Existing law creates the Occupational Safety and Health Standards Board and, among other things, requires it to adopt standards developed by the division relating to workplace violence prevention plans at hospitals. This bill would require the State Department of State Hospitals, the State Department of Developmental Services, or the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation to report the total number of assaults against employees at each facility operated by the respective department quarterly, as specified, to all the state bargaining units at the department. The bill would require that each department also report this information to the Legislature and the chairs of certain committees annually, as specified. The bill would prescribe the information to be reported and would require that the information protect the confidentiality of certain parties. The bill would define terms for the purposes of these provisions. (2) Existing constitutional provisions require that a statute that limits the right of access to the meetings of public bodies or the writings of public officials and agencies be adopted with findings demonstrating the interest protected by the limitation and the need for protecting that interest. This bill would make legislative findings to that effect.