# Labor and Employment (GLE)

## Title 5. Occupational Safety and Health

### Subtitle 11. Health Care Facilities -- Workplace Safety Program

#### Section 5-1101

(a) In this subtitle the following words have the meanings indicated.

(b)

  (1) "Health care facility" means:

    (i) a hospital; or

    (ii) a State residential center.

  (2) "Health care facility" includes:

    (i) a subacute care unit of a hospital; and

    (ii) a State-operated hospital.

(c) "Health care worker" means an individual employed by a health care facility.

(d) "Hospital" has the meaning stated in Sec. 19-301 of the Health - General Article.

(e) "State residential center" has the meaning stated in Sec. 7-101 of the Health - General Article.

(f) "Workplace safety" means the prevention of any physical assault or threatening behavior against a health care worker in a health care facility.

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Md. Code Ann., Lab. & Empl. (as displayed at mgaleg.maryland.gov, October 16, 2026)