Workplace safety

Assaults in the emergency department are on the rise with nearly one-fourth (24%) of emergency physicians reporting being assaulted multiple times...Read More »

Nothing like the last month of summer to clean out the files in the arena of life safety compliance and healthcare security.

Without...Read More »

The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) is...Read More »

The International Association for Healthcare Security and Safety (IAHSS) has ...Read More »

Last year, the healthcare industry hit a high of 45 million individuals affected by breach attacks, up from 34 million in 2020 and 14 million in...Read More »

That equates to more than two nursing personnel assaulted every hour; 57 per day; and 1,739 per month, the data reveals.

“Nurses take an...Read More »

Nurses at 15 hospitals in the Twin Cities and northern Minnesota began a three-day walkout Monday morning, September 12, 2022.

The strike...Read More »

There is a new “pox” on lab safety—monkeypox. Like the most recent novel virus (COVID-19), the unknowns about the monkeypox virus are creating new...Read More »

This is the first of a two-part...Read More »

A couple of short-ish items for the week as we start to clear the decks for the headlong rush into the autumnal portion of 2022 (I know there’s...Read More »