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The inside scoop from a Life Safety Code surveyor

December 20, 2025

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

It can be harrowing when a surveyor and their team arrive at your facility. Even though you’ve spent a good chunk of time getting ready for the survey, you’ll undoubtedly still feel like you’ve left s...

Mac's Safety Space

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Everyone’s a risk wrangler

July 18, 2022

Accreditation & Survey Preparation, Environment and Facilities, Behavioral & Mental Health

It seems that every week when I look for topics upon which to pontificate, I periodically try to find things that don’t (necessarily) focus on the whole risk assessment thing and I have come to the in...

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It’s survey time: Tips for successful LSC survey preparation

December 20, 2025

Accreditation & Survey Preparation, Natural & Manmade Disasters, Environment and Facilities, Fire & Life Safety

Scott Wytosick, CFPS, CFI-II, life safety coordinator for Akron Children’s Hospital and former Life Safety Code® (LSC) surveyor, says preparing for a survey is all about reviewing previous surveys. ...

Medical Environment Update

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ACHC: Common lab deficiencies and solutions

December 20, 2025

Accreditation & Survey Preparation, Environment and Facilities, Laboratory Safety, Workplace safety

Emergency showers, manufacturer instructions, staffing and personnel issues—these are some of the standards that laboratories are struggling with, according to the Accreditation Commission for Health ...

Healthcare Safety Leader

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Tips for assessing your security in aftermath of Tulsa hospital shooting

July 05, 2022

Environment and Facilities, Workplace safety

If your hospital security team is reassessing its workplace violence plan in the wake of recent hospital shootings, make sure to have a thorough risk assessment and a well-researched plan before going...

Healthcare Safety Leader

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Use updated ICRA tool now to assess infection control on construction projects

June 28, 2022

Environment and Facilities, Physical environment, Infection Control

The updated infection control risk assessment (ICRA) tool for construction, renovation, and operations might be longer, but it is more user-friendly and eliminates some of the guesswork from the old v...

Inside Accreditation & Quality

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Use updated ICRA tool now to assess infection control on construction projects

June 28, 2022

Environment and Facilities, Physical environment, Infection Control

Healthcare Safety Leader

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Tips for managing vendor relationships in healthcare

December 20, 2025

Environment and Facilities, Physical environment

Prudent third-party risk management in healthcare follows a time-tested playbook and hinges on a few key fundamentals that all risk managers can use to assess their organization’s progress. It is also...

Mac's Safety Space

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We live in a 3-D world…

December 20, 2025

Accreditation & Survey Preparation, Environment and Facilities

One of the common themes that’s emerged from our transition into what is presumably going to be a post-COVID world (somehow I still think that we not yet reached the mid-point of the COVID-athon, but ...

Medical Environment Update

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Tips for running successful fire drills

December 20, 2025

Natural & Manmade Disasters, Environment and Facilities, Laboratory Safety, Fire & Life Safety, Workplace safety

Someone’s always checking for compliance when it comes to fire safety, especially in healthcare facilities. Naturally, that includes several regulatory agencies: CMS, The Joint Commission (TJC), Depar...

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The inside scoop from a Life Safety Code surveyor

Everyone’s a risk wrangler

It’s survey time: Tips for successful LSC survey preparation

ACHC: Common lab deficiencies and solutions

Tips for assessing your security in aftermath of Tulsa hospital shooting

Use updated ICRA tool now to assess infection control on construction projects

Use updated ICRA tool now to assess infection control on construction projects

Tips for managing vendor relationships in healthcare

We live in a 3-D world…

Tips for running successful fire drills

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