Physical environment

While I think I knew intrinsically that tamper-resistant and tamper-proof were not terms to be used interchangeably, I had never really...Read More »

Rounds, tours, tracers. These are all time-honored approaches to monitoring conditions in the environment, but how are folks using those...Read More »

How do we as safety and facilities professionals get better about asking for, and accepting, assistance from above? I’ve listened to many...Read More »

We have now reached the furthest end of our countdown. Read More »

​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...Read More »

Actually, that title is a bit misleading because, truth be told, the most frequently cited conditions in the physical environment as collated by...Read More »

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...Read More »

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...Read More »

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...Read More »

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...Read More »