While I think I knew intrinsically that tamper-resistant and tamper-proof were not terms to be used interchangeably, I had never really given it a great deal of thought.
Rounds, tours, tracers. These are all time-honored approaches to monitoring conditions in the environment, but how are folks using those approaches to verify the effectiveness/sustainability of their compliance efforts?
How do we as safety and facilities professionals get better about asking for, and accepting, assistance from above? I’ve listened to many frustrated individuals ask about leveraging compliance in the field when things are not quite perfect, and I (almost) invariably ask them back the question:...
Moving on through the rest of the list (we’ll finish this up next week), again no surprises if you’ve been paying attention to the survey process over the last decade or so (this really started to gain traction round about ’09). I do wish I had a better sense of what the...
Actually, that title is a bit misleading because, truth be told, the most frequently cited conditions in the physical environment as collated by our friends from Chicago over the past year or so are pretty much the ones they’ve been for as far back as I can remember (which is far enough).
As I see it, the current changes to the Joint Commission accreditation process that are barreling at us with almost alarming speed (it will be January before you know it—and I’m keeping close tabs on that, let me tell you) represent a significant opportunity to streamline the oversight processes...
Over the years, I have met a number of folks that got their healthcare start in what used to be known as housekeeping. I got in just at the end of the “housekeeping” era; we morphed into “building services.”
The more I look at the announced changes to Joint Commission’s accreditation product(s), the more it seems to me that the end result is more a reshuffling of the same deck of cards we’ve been playing with since the dawn of the life safety surveyor as part of the accreditation survey team.
Sometimes when I'm preparing a new post, I like to do a quick search to see if I'd covered the subject previously and, if so, how long ago it might have been. I recently did a search relative to the Safety Space and the hierarchy of hazard controls and found that we had touched on the subject a...
