KRS 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 me dical 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.