Field investigation or home visit; training program; documentation of safety risk; completion with another department employee or law enforcement officer.

Sec. 115q. (1) The department shall develop, implement, and provide a training program to each department employee who is required to perform a field investigation or home visit. The training program shall include both of the following: (a) Mandatory training on defusing threatening behavior. (b) Mandatory training on how to perform a safe investigation or home visit and recognize a potentially dangerous situation. (2) If a department employee who is required to perform a field investigation or home visit has documented a risk that leads to a reasonable apprehension regarding the safety of performing a field investigation or home visit, that employee shall complete the field investigation or home visit with another department employee who has been trained as required in subsection (1) or with a law enforcement officer.