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Healthcare Safety Leader

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OSHA emphasizes engineering controls in workplace violence citation

February 08, 2022

Workplace safety

Review your workplace violence prevention program to ensure staff are protected from violent patients. That includes the use of engineering controls. A solid program might not only save your staff fro...

Accreditation & Quality Compliance Advisor

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Add sleep problems to the list of COVID-19 challenges for nurses

February 12, 2026

Behavioral & Mental Health, Workplace safety, Healthcare Staff, Infection Control

Working the front lines of the early COVID-19 pandemic led to sleepless nights, anxiety, and depression for more than half of nurses surveyed for a new study. “Nurses are already at risk for higher...

Accreditation & Quality Compliance Advisor

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NAHQ: Quality professionals and quality work essential during crises such as coronavirus pandemic

February 12, 2026

Natural & Manmade Disasters, Leadership & Finance, Quality & Errors, Infection Control

The coronavirus pandemic has illustrated the value of quality professionals and their work in healthcare, according to a recent whitepaper from the National Association for Healthcare Quality (NAHQ). ...

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Top healthcare security threats

February 12, 2026

Natural & Manmade Disasters, Physical environment, Leadership & Finance, Patient Safety, Workplace safety

Healthcare security never sleeps. Literally—healthcare workers need around-the-clock surveillance, protection, and care from trusted security officials. And it isn’t just physical security and work...

Medical Environment Update

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Lab safety behaviors in 2022

February 12, 2026

Laboratory Safety, Leadership & Finance, Workplace safety

Maintaining lab safety and protecting workers is an endless job, with old challenges arising just as frequently as new ones. Sean G. Kaufman is CEO and founding partner of Safer Behaviors, a compan...

Patient Safety Monitor Journal

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Operating room distractions

February 12, 2026

Leadership & Finance, Patient Safety, Policies and Procedures, Quality & Errors

Brad Truax, MD, principal consultant of the Truax Group, says he doesn’t think anybody has really done a good job at reducing distractions in the OR. As an example, he cites a 2021 study done by Alysh...

Accreditation & Quality Compliance Advisor

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CMS to states: Enforce vaccine and other patient safety requirements or else

February 09, 2022

Accreditation & Survey Preparation

One way or another, CMS is promising states that it will enforce its mandate for staff at hospitals and other providers to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19. ...

Healthcare Safety Leader

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Ask the Expert: Do you need to do fire extinguisher training in surgical or kitchen areas?

February 15, 2022

Environment and Facilities, Fire & Life Safety

Q: Do we need to do fire extinguisher training in surgery, the kitchen, and MRI? ...

Inside Accreditation & Quality

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(Updated) Are your surveyors vaccinated? Probably, but please don’t ask

February 15, 2022

Accreditation & Survey Preparation

CMS has officially put out guidance to its own state survey agencies that all its on-site surveyors should be fully vaccinated, and it expects the same of accrediting organizations (AO). However, acco...

Mac's Safety Space

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Are IFUs all you need to observe?

February 15, 2022

Accreditation & Survey Preparation

Another item that I see referenced in surveys with increasing frequency are those relating to organization’s not being able to clearly demonstrate that they are managing their whatevers in accordance ...

OSHA emphasizes engineering controls in workplace violence citation

Add sleep problems to the list of COVID-19 challenges for nurses

NAHQ: Quality professionals and quality work essential during crises such as coronavirus pandemic

Top healthcare security threats

Lab safety behaviors in 2022

Operating room distractions

CMS to states: Enforce vaccine and other patient safety requirements or else

Ask the Expert: Do you need to do fire extinguisher training in surgical or kitchen areas?

(Updated) Are your surveyors vaccinated? Probably, but please don’t ask

Are IFUs all you need to observe?

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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

Chapter 2: Chapter Format and Tracer Planning