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Mac’s Safety Space: People are people, so why should it be…

March 13, 2023

Accreditation & Survey Preparation

As I am fond of saying, buildings are never more perfect than the moment before you let people inside. ...

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Mac's Safety Space: The importance of advocacy in modern healthcare facilities management

March 20, 2023

Environment and Facilities, Physical environment

What’s it all about…ASHE? ...

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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: 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...

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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: Advocacy wins a round—microgrids and sustainable energy

April 17, 2023

Accreditation & Survey Preparation

In what is hopefully another in an ever-more-frequently covered topic (that being, the removal of barriers to compliance by those charged with determining compliance), CMS released information regardi...

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Mac’s Safety Space: The most frequently cited standards…

April 24, 2023

Accreditation & Survey Preparation, Physical environment

We can finally close the book, so to speak, on survey year 2022 and, in so doing, ponder the forces that come into play to increase the degree(s) of difficulty when it comes to compliance. And, in cas...

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Mac’s Safety Space: Public health emergency—over & (probably not) out

May 01, 2023

As we rapidly approach May 11 and the official termination of the Public Health Emergency relating to COVID-19, I realized that I’ve been “sitting” on some COVID stuff that I wanted to get to you folk...

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Mac’s Safety Space: Safety risk inclusivity – Doing the math in your head

May 08, 2023

Accreditation & Survey Preparation

It seems there is a movement afoot in the surveyor ranks to try to identify processes that have been in place so long that the results of any risk assessment are likely fossilized, or to find conditio...

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Mac's Safety Space: If it ain’t over ‘til it’s over…

May 15, 2023

Accreditation & Survey Preparation

By Steve MacArthur, Hospital Safety Consultant Can you get over something that’s not over? I think this one will be relatively brief (as I always do), so we’ll see how far this takes us… On M...

Mac’s Safety Space: People are people, so why should it be…

Mac's Safety Space: The importance of advocacy in modern healthcare facilities management

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

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

Mac’s Safety Space: Active safety culture

Mac’s Safety Space: Advocacy wins a round—microgrids and sustainable energy

Mac’s Safety Space: The most frequently cited standards…

Mac’s Safety Space: Public health emergency—over & (probably not) out

Mac’s Safety Space: Safety risk inclusivity – Doing the math in your head

Mac's Safety Space: If it ain’t over ‘til it’s over…

Resource/w tools selected

STET CMS & tools

OSHA Dental Facilities Update - November 2023

OSHA Medical Facilities Update - November 2023

Tab 2, Medical Facilities OSHA Manual- August 2023

Tab 2, Dental Facility OSHA Manual- August 2023

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