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Mac's Safety Space

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Why are we here? Because we’re here!

August 17, 2020

Environment and Facilities, Physical environment, Workplace safety

By Steve MacArthur, Hospital Safety Consultant One item came up on the radar this past week or so and it appears (I poked around in the archival blogosphere and could find no mention) that I’ve not...

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I feel like we’ve crossed this bridge before…fire drills are all the RACE!

August 11, 2020

Environment and Facilities, Fire & Life Safety

By Steve MacArthur, Hospital Safety Consultant While the numbers are fairly small (though at almost 30% for a noncompliance rate during 2019 surveys, you could certainly make the case that almost a...

Mac's Safety Space

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Just when you thought it couldn’t possibly get any stranger…

August 03, 2020

Environment and Facilities, Fire & Life Safety, Accreditation & Survey Preparation

By Steve MacArthur, Hospital Safety Consultant But first (as promised), a word about fire drills (there will be more, maybe next week, depends on what comes flying over the transom…): About a month...

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Yes, I know I said fire drills, but…

July 27, 2020

Environment and Facilities, Accreditation & Survey Preparation

By Steve MacArthur, Hospital Safety Consultant Please feel free to accuse me of “dogging it,” but since I am on vacation this week and you all probably need something of a vacation from me, here’s ...

Mac's Safety Space

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Emergency management in (you guessed it) ambulatory healthcare

July 20, 2020

Natural & Manmade Disasters, Environment and Facilities

By Steve MacArthur, Hospital Safety Consultant I was really, really, really thinking that I’d be able to glom on to some other subject matter this week (which I suppose it partially true), but it w...

Mac's Safety Space

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Stuck on the same refrain: Outpatient! Outpatient! Outpatient!

July 13, 2021

Environment and Facilities, Fire & Life Safety, Accreditation & Survey Preparation

By Steve MacArthur, Hospital Safety Consultant I’m hoping to break the spell in kind of a reverse Beetlejuice invocation… As we try to obtain some level of clarity relative to the Joint Commissi...

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Brother/Sister, can you spare a sprinkler head?

July 06, 2020

Environment and Facilities, Fire & Life Safety

By Steve MacArthur, Hospital Safety Consultant This week, I continue my ruminations on all things relating to outpatient care sites (Quick question: Is there anyone out there who doesn’t have respo...

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Probably not the final word on outpatient clinic settings

June 29, 2020

Environment and Facilities, Physical environment, Accreditation & Survey Preparation

By Steve MacArthur, Hospital Safety Consultant Sometimes I have a difficult time finding a unifying “thread” for the weekly chronicle and other times the way forward is fairly clear. This week may ...

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And it makes me wonder…sure does!

June 23, 2020

Environment and Facilities, Fire & Life Safety

By Steve MacArthur, Hospital Safety Consultant And it’s not just a bustle in your hedgerow, so alarm might be warranted… Lately, I’ve been using this space to muse on the potential for changes t...

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We advance, masked!

June 15, 2020

Natural & Manmade Disasters, Environment and Facilities, Infection Control

By Steve MacArthur, Hospital Safety Consultant In the topsy turvy world of Personal Protective Equipment (aka PPE), there are some developments on the decontamination/reprocessing of masks that I w...

Why are we here? Because we’re here!

I feel like we’ve crossed this bridge before…fire drills are all the RACE!

Just when you thought it couldn’t possibly get any stranger…

Yes, I know I said fire drills, but…

Emergency management in (you guessed it) ambulatory healthcare

Stuck on the same refrain: Outpatient! Outpatient! Outpatient!

Brother/Sister, can you spare a sprinkler head?

Probably not the final word on outpatient clinic settings

And it makes me wonder…sure does!

We advance, masked!

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