The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) is advancing a long-awaited federal standard for workplace violence prevention in healthcare and social services. After years of groundwork, the rule remains active on the federal regulatory agenda and is moving through the proposed rule stage. Many health systems are preparing as if the standard could take effect as early as 2025.
Litum’s Healthcare RTLS provides that last-meter safety layer. Instant staff duress alerts with precise location, automated incident logs, and actionable trend insights- so you can comply and protect your staff now.
Nurses and staff face escalating threats in healthcare. Security needs precise location and fewer information delays. Leaders need proof that interventions work and that the organization can stand up to regulatory scrutiny. OSHA has long cautioned that healthcare workers experience higher rates of serious violence than most sectors, and it maintains dedicated healthcare resources and enforcement procedures because the risk is foreseeable, and preventable.
What the Mandate Expects in Practice
Hazard Assessment: A systematic look at units, shifts, and workflows to identify where staff face elevated violence risk.
Controls and Response: Concrete measures (environmental, administrative, and training), plus instant staff-duress and coordinated response that can be verified after the fact.
Reporting and Records: Complete, time-stamped incident logs and follow up actions that stand up to survey and enforcement.
Program Evaluation: Ongoing analysis of incident trends, hotspots, and response times, with evidence that interventions are improving outcomes.
Training and Drills: Role-appropriate training, regular drills, and documented competency.
These aren’t one-and-done tasks. They demand verifiable evidence that your plan is working on real units with real staff.
The Solution Built on One RTLS Backbone
One-Press Staff Duress with Precise Location
A purpose-built badge sends who/where/when data in seconds. Security and charge nurses see sub-meter level location on a live map and respond, cutting time-to-assist and shortening incidents. This is the last meter of safety between a button press and help at the right door, where OSHA frames patient and visitor-initiated violence as a central focus on contemplated standards.
Automated, OSHA-ready incident logs
Every alert auto-creates a time stamped chain from the alert to the response. That record supports internal review and OSHA inquiries, and it spares staff from reconstructing events after the fact.
Trend Analytics to Surface Risk Early
Dashboards reveal hotspots by unit and shift, repeat-offender patterns, and time-based spikes. With RTLS, healthcare providers can target environmental controls and training where they matter most, and prove whether interventions work over time.
Tight Integration with Security
RTLS alerts can dispatch responders, show a location on floor plans, and trigger lockdowns, connecting the dots from alarm to coordinated response
A Platform You Can Expand, Not Rebuild
With one RTLS infrastructure, hospitals can add infant security, patient flow, asset tracking, and staff duress as priorities evolve, without rip and replace. This means safety improvements don’t come at unplanned costs but get built on the same backbone.
The Future of Healthcare RTLS By Litum
Litum, with its decade-long experience in Healthcare RTLS, is the address for hospitals when they need proven accuracy, robust reliability, and fast time-to-value. Litum’s platform is built for U.S. healthcare: Easy to integrate with access control systems like LenelS2, security, and communication systems. With scalability across units, and designed to turn safety mandates into measurable outcomes, Litum is the healthcare RTLS backbone for healthcare systems in light of OSHA’s regulations.
What Litum Provides:
- Staff Duress: One-press, location-precise alerts that speed response and reduce false alarms.
- Infant Security: Tamper-proof, rechargeable tags with zone-aware protections and access-controlled movement to prevent mismatches and abductions.
- Medical Asset Tracking: Real-time location and usage for valuable and time-sensitive assets to cut search time, boost utilization, and avoid over-purchasing costs.
- Patient Flow: Live visibility from ED to discharge to reduce bottlenecks and minimize wait times.
- Wander Management & Senior Living Safety: Automated alerts when at-risk patients approach or cross selected boundaries.
- Emergency Mustering: With real-time headcounts and location data, hospitals are empowered with instant knowledge of exactly who is safe and who may still be at risk, ensuring faster, more confident responses when every second counts.
All solutions run on a single, future-ready backbone with sub-meter accuracy, robust security, and scalable integrations that help turn OSHA’s Violence Prevention Mandate into a program hospitals can demonstrate, defend, and continuously improve.
