Keeping healthcare workers safe and healthy is a crucial part of maintaining a high quality healthcare facility

Lab safety: Hierarchy of controls

Medical Environment Update
February 7, 2023
Laboratory Safety, Leadership & Finance, Workplace safety

How do you remove harms and dangers from your laboratory? Safety officials have studied this question for years and found many innovative...Read More »

Hospital EDs are taking a proactive approach to violence

Accreditation & Quality Compliance Advisor
February 7, 2023
Workplace safety, Healthcare Staff

With roughly 85% of emergency physicians ...Read More »

Pandemic’s toll: 55.3% of surveyed healthcare workers report subthreshold PTSD symptoms

Accreditation & Quality Compliance Advisor
January 31, 2023
Workplace safety, Healthcare Staff, Infection Control

The recent study, which was published in the Journal of Psychiatric Research, is based on survey data collected from 852 healthcare...Read More »

OSHA adds ‘instance-by-instance’ citation policy

Healthcare Safety Leader
January 30, 2023
Workplace safety

OSHA has issued new ...Read More »

Departmental Workplace Violence Assessment (courtesy Bryan Warren)

Healthcare Safety Leader
January 30, 2023
Environment and Facilities, Workplace safety

(Departmental workplace violence risk assessment courtesy of Bryan Warren, president and chief consultant for WarSec Security; for more...Read More »

Making sure folks can’t break on through to the other side…

Mac's Safety Space
January 27, 2023
Environment and Facilities, Fire & Life Safety, Workplace safety

One of the critical aspects of managing the security of your building is effectively “hardening” your perimeter, which to a fair degree means that...Read More »

2023 could be the year Joint Commission workplace violence standards get the spotlight

Patient Safety Monitor Journal
January 24, 2023
Accreditation & Survey Preparation, Workplace safety

The Joint Commission (TJC) unveiled new and revised workplace violence prevention (WPV) requirements effective January 1, 2022. Specifically, it...Read More »

Safe staffing at the top of new ANA president’s priority list

Accreditation & Quality Compliance Advisor
January 24, 2023
Health Equity, Healthcare Staff, Workplace safety

As ...Read More »

OSHA’s Regulatory Plans for 2023

Accreditation & Quality Compliance Advisor
January 24, 2023
Accreditation & Survey Preparation, Infection Control, Workplace safety

Labor Secretary Marty Walsh recently confirmed that three OSHA healthcare rulemakings are priorities for the Labor Department: a permanent...Read More »

Mac’s Safety Space: And then, there’s this to consider…

Mac's Safety Space
January 21, 2023
Environment and Facilities, Workplace safety

The good folks over at the Occupational Safety & Health Administration (OSHA) ...Read More »

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