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Mac's Safety Space: Money’s too tight to mention—or is it?

December 18, 2025

Leadership & Finance

One of the critical relationships in the life of any healthcare facilities or safety professional is the one with your chief financial officer (CFO), which, if you think about it, is much like marriag...

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Mac's Safety Space: The ABCs of Inspection, Testing, and Maintenance

October 24, 2023

Physical environment, Infection Control

Historically, we generally don’t spend much time in the realm of the management of medical equipment, but when one of the primary shot-callers in the accreditation world brings attention it in the amb...

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Mac's Safety Space: HVAC operations—Better breathing ahead?

December 18, 2025

Environment and Facilities, Physical environment

Well (at least up here in the Northeast), it appears that the cooling season is rapidly changing over to the heating season and, (so it would seem) the advocacy season is heating up as well. Late l...

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Mac's Safety Space: Risk assessments and the lessons of the past

December 18, 2025

Accreditation & Survey Preparation

In my mind’s eye, I always think that I’ve covered certain topics in posts gone by (and I suspect this is one of those recurring risk assessment themes), but some things just don’t seem to go away. ...

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Mac's Safety Space: Additional training may not bode well if you’re managing the environment

October 02, 2023

Accreditation & Survey Preparation

There are one or two takeaways from the recent CMS approval of our friends from Chicago to continue accrediting critical access hospitals that gave me pause. ...

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Mac’s Safety Space: Egress and the art of mobility

September 25, 2023

Environment and Facilities, Fire & Life Safety

Thoughts on the introduction of technology as a function of mobile units (CT, PET MRI, etc.) and how those arrangements might come into play as a function of fire response plans, egress and any other ...

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Mac’s Safety Space: When you can’t swat back

September 18, 2023

Natural & Manmade Disasters, Environment and Facilities, Workplace safety

Here are some things you can do to make it as difficult as possible for someone to “swat” your organization. ...

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Mac’s Safety Space: Fires and construction—doing a good job even better

March 27, 2023

Environment and Facilities, Fire & Life Safety, Physical environment

While it is certainly the case that healthcare is doing a good job in managing the risks of fire during construction, there still appears to be an opportunity for improvement, small thought it may be....

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Mac’s Safety Space: Active safety culture

April 10, 2023

Environment and Facilities, Physical environment, Patient Safety, Workplace safety

In the absence of embracing of a culture of safety throughout all levels of any organization, the folks who manage the physical environment would seem to be at something of a disadvantage. ...

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Mac’s Safety Space: Workplace violence–plotting your own course

April 03, 2023

Accreditation & Survey Preparation

Including the workplace violence worksite assessment in the annual evaluation process will help keep the topic in mind, but also informg organizational leadership as to what’s going on and what suppor...

Mac's Safety Space: Money’s too tight to mention—or is it?

Mac's Safety Space: The ABCs of Inspection, Testing, and Maintenance

Mac's Safety Space: HVAC operations—Better breathing ahead?

Mac's Safety Space: Risk assessments and the lessons of the past

Mac's Safety Space: Additional training may not bode well if you’re managing the environment

Mac’s Safety Space: Egress and the art of mobility

Mac’s Safety Space: When you can’t swat back

Mac’s Safety Space: Fires and construction—doing a good job even better

Mac’s Safety Space: Active safety culture

Mac’s Safety Space: Workplace violence–plotting your own course

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