APNewsBreak: Review critical of workplace safety policy

(AP) — An inspection has found the state child welfare agency's safety policy didn't have comprehensive measures to protect employees from workplace assaults when a social worker was shot dead outside her office building last August.

A letter with the findings has been given to the commissioners of the child welfare agency and the Department of Buildings and General Services and was obtained by The Associated Press on Tuesday.

The safety administration recommended better training of child welfare agency workers, better record keeping of threats and more workplace violence controls such as locks, lighting and barriers.

The agency's commissioner, Ken Schatz, said Tuesday that a worker safety policy has been proposed and the agency has added training sessions and asked staff members to report threats to the commissioner's office, not just to the buildings department, so it can better understand the nature of them and where they are occurring.