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Everybody’s talking: I can’t hear a word they’re saying…

December 21, 2025

Environment and Facilities

By Steve MacArthur, Hospital Safety Consultant Something of a mixed bag of stuff this week, which is sometimes the case, particularly with the ever-shifting compliance landscape. First up, an updat...

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Not just dentists need drills

October 04, 2021

Environment and Facilities, Fire & Life Safety

There’s an interesting article on the history of fire drills in the latest issue of Health Facilities Management if you’ve not checked it out. I had the chance to do some work at St. Anthony’s Hospita...

Medical Environment Update

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Medical Environment Update, October 2021

October 02, 2021

Environment and Facilities, Workplace safety

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As we relive our lives in what we tell you…

September 27, 2021

Environment and Facilities, Accreditation & Survey Preparation

By Steve MacArthur, Hospital Safety Consultant While it is always my intent to be amazingly timely in posting things, sometimes items that I’ve earmarked for sharing end up languishing in my draft ...

Patient Safety Monitor Journal

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Eyewash stations, documentation biggest challenge for HFAP labs in 2020

December 21, 2025

Environment and Facilities, Workplace safety, Accreditation & Survey Preparation

Clinical laboratories surveyed under HFAP standards in 2020 showed improvements over the top deficiencies identified in earlier years, in a time when “clinical laboratories in all settings managed hig...

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The Matrix Unloaded…Overloaded: Somehow stuff keeps happening…

September 20, 2021

Environment and Facilities, Accreditation & Survey Preparation

By Steve MacArthur, Hospital Safety Consultant Interesting read in the October 2021 Perspectives relative to some Life Safety chapter considerations that have earned a place in the Consistent Inter...

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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...

Patient Safety Monitor Journal

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Profile: Healthcare design with Angela Mazzi

December 21, 2025

Environment and Facilities, Patient Safety, Workplace safety

While not the sole determinant of health, studies have found healthcare environments have some impact on patient outcomes. Namely, patient rooms and facilities designed with patient comfort in mind ca...

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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...

Patient Safety Monitor Journal

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Locking up before you go: Security and continued operations amid an evacuation

December 21, 2025

Accreditation & Survey Preparation, Natural & Manmade Disasters, Environment and Facilities

Getting your patients and staff out of harm’s way is always the number one priority during an evacuation, and it might not always be practical to do a step-by-step lockdown of your facility or take al...

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Everybody’s talking: I can’t hear a word they’re saying…

Not just dentists need drills

Medical Environment Update, October 2021

As we relive our lives in what we tell you…

Eyewash stations, documentation biggest challenge for HFAP labs in 2020

The Matrix Unloaded…Overloaded: Somehow stuff keeps happening…

Don’t let weighing in weigh you down…

Profile: Healthcare design with Angela Mazzi

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

Locking up before you go: Security and continued operations amid an evacuation

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