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Mac's Safety Space

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Don’t let weighing in weigh you down…

September 14, 2021

Environment and Facilities, Accreditation & Survey Preparation

By Steve MacArthur, Hospital Safety Consultant In what I would term an interesting move (I don’t know that I would go so far as to call it unprecedented, but it might well could be), our friends in...

Mac's Safety Space

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If this is really accurate, how big of a deal is this to you?

September 08, 2021

Environment and Facilities, Workplace safety

By Steve MacArthur, Hospital Safety Consultant First off, I will indeed stipulate that any instance of workplace violence, whatever causative factors might be in play, is at least one too many inst...

Mac's Safety Space

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And now a brief word from…

August 30, 2021

Environment and Facilities, Workplace safety

By Steve MacArthur, Hospital Safety Consultant The source of any number of potential nightmares… Sorry for the extraordinarily late notice on this, but our friends at the Occupational Safety &am...

Mac's Safety Space

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Time has come today: There’s late and there’s LATE

August 23, 2021

Environment and Facilities, Accreditation & Survey Preparation

By Steve MacArthur, Hospital Safety Consultant Depending on where you are, you may be bumping up against process elements that are causing certain activities to be “late,” even beyond the grace per...

Mac's Safety Space

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Looking back, looking ahead: Where did all the heroes go?

August 16, 2021

Environment and Facilities

By Steve MacArthur, Hospital Safety Consultant For those of you who have been watching this space for a while, it is probably a pretty good likelihood that you know that I (at times) have a tendenc...

Mac's Safety Space

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Processing processes: Keeping everything in front of you…

August 10, 2021

Environment and Facilities, Accreditation & Survey Preparation

By Steve MacArthur, Hospital Safety Consultant I’m thinking that there’s probably a fairly limited number of you folks for whom durable medical equipment (DME) is part of your “span of control,” th...

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Making movies on location…

August 02, 2021

Environment and Facilities, Physical environment, Workplace safety

By Steve MacArthur, Hospital Safety Consultant One of the constants of any effective physical environment/safety program is the effort to ensure that folks at point-of-care/point-of-service are pro...

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Maybe this time we should do things a little differently

July 26, 2021

Environment and Facilities

By Steve MacArthur, Hospital Safety Consultant This may be a “me” thing, but it seems to me that I’ve seen a lot of annual evaluations recently that only minimally make note of organizational respo...

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Night time in the switching yard: Listen to the train(ing) whistle whine

July 19, 2021

Environment and Facilities, Workplace safety, Infection Control

By Steve MacArthur, Hospital Safety Consultant I suspect that, amongst all the other things that have been pounding on the metaphorical rooftops, you saw the updated guidance from OSHA relating to ...

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Protection is improvement, improvement is protection: Keeping folks safe from workplace violence

July 12, 2021

Environment and Facilities, Workplace safety

By Steve MacArthur, Hospital Safety Consultant When it comes to the management of workplace violence considerations, I think we all have experienced the many, many ways in which these risks can man...

Don’t let weighing in weigh you down…

If this is really accurate, how big of a deal is this to you?

And now a brief word from…

Time has come today: There’s late and there’s LATE

Looking back, looking ahead: Where did all the heroes go?

Processing processes: Keeping everything in front of you…

Making movies on location…

Maybe this time we should do things a little differently

Night time in the switching yard: Listen to the train(ing) whistle whine

Protection is improvement, improvement is protection: Keeping folks safe from workplace violence

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