What Lies Beneath Will Cost You–Even Without a Fine The Incident That Made the News On December 4, 2025, Alberto Rangel, a 51-year-old social worker, was stabbed and killed at San Francisco General Hospital’s HIV clinic, Ward 86. He came to work that day to help people. He did not go home. Six months later, the reports from California’s Division of Occupational Safety and Health have landed, and so have the fines — a $142,700 fine against the University of California, San Fr

A plain-language overview of the OIG's FY 2026 Audit Workplan — and what it signals for healthcare leaders If you work in healthcare safety, here's a headline worth paying attention to: the Department of Labor's Office of Inspector General (OIG) has announced it will audit OSHA's workplace violence prevention efforts for the first time in 25 years. That number should stop you cold. Twenty-five years. The audit is included in the DOL OIG's Fiscal Year 2026 Audit Workplan — a p