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Statutes > Michigan > Chapter-400 > Act-280-of-1939 > 280-1939-county-department-of-social-services > Section-400-115qTHE SOCIAL WELFARE ACT (EXCERPT)
Act 280 of 1939
400.115q 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.
History: Add. 2001, Act 14, Eff. Sept. 1, 2001
Popular Name: Act 280
