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Patient Safety Monitor Journal

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COVID-19 and the Hierarchy of Controls

December 23, 2025

Environment and Facilities, Infection Control, Workplace safety, Quality & Errors

With a spike in both COVID-19 and influenza cases expected this fall, many are reexamining and shoring up their infection control processes. Healthcare providers have already made several changes this...

Inside Accreditation & Quality

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Protect longterm supply chain: Don’t hoard, just order what you need

December 23, 2025

Natural & Manmade Disasters, Environment and Facilities, Infection Control, Workplace safety

As the COVID-19 surge continues through its second wave and collides with influenza season as well as hurricanes, wildfires, or whatever natural disasters the year still has in store, supply experts h...

Mac's Safety Space

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At what point does an emergency response activation become the ‘new normal’?

September 21, 2020

Natural & Manmade Disasters, Environment and Facilities

By Steve MacArthur, Hospital Safety Consultant As we approach the “end” of 2020 (and holding on to the hope that 2020 won’t find a way to persist into next year), I was pondering the question of ho...

Accreditation & Quality Compliance Advisor

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OSHA fines hospitals for PPE failures related to COVID-19

September 18, 2020

Environment and Facilities, Workplace safety, Infection Control

Ensure workers are trained fit-tested for using respirators and are not sharing protective gowns as they care for potentially infectious patients, or you may face fines from OSHA. ...

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The impossible year continues: Emergency response in 2020

September 15, 2020

Natural & Manmade Disasters, Environment and Facilities, Infection Control

By Steve MacArthur, Hospital Safety Consultant Interestingly enough, I don’t believe that I have a great deal of yammering to do this week; not sure if it’s just a case of mental fatigue with all t...

Accreditation & Quality Compliance Advisor

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Free PSMJ articles on Wildfires

December 23, 2025

Natural & Manmade Disasters, Environment and Facilities

With skies literally turning red from wildfire smoke on the West Coast, we have unlocked a couple of our Patient Safety Monitor Journal articles on wildfires, mass evacuation planning, and patient tri...

Mac's Safety Space

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Punching above your weight: Virtual inspections are coming!

September 08, 2020

Environment and Facilities, Accreditation & Survey Preparation, Infection Control

By Steve MacArthur, Hospital Safety Consultant As we continue the endurance test that is 2020, one of the general concepts that keeps cropping up relates to external folks (I hesitate to characteri...

Accreditation & Quality Compliance Advisor

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Been through a disaster? There is help for recovery

August 27, 2020

Natural & Manmade Disasters, Environment and Facilities

Your hospital, urgent care center, nursing home, laboratory or other healthcare facility has just survived a hurricane. Or a wildfire. Or a tornado. Or any other disaster. Now you need help with recov...

Patient Safety Monitor Journal

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Patient Safety Monitor Journal, September 2020

December 23, 2025

Behavioral & Mental Health, Environment and Facilities, Patient Safety, Quality & Errors, Workplace safety, Cybersecurity & Technology, Infection Control

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Mac's Safety Space

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If you’re the AHJ, it really isn’t an “interpretation,” is it?

August 31, 2020

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

By Steve MacArthur, Hospital Safety Consultant I’m sure we all have stories about Authorities Having Jurisdiction (AHJ) whose “sense” of what is required by code was less operationally friendly tha...

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COVID-19 and the Hierarchy of Controls

Protect longterm supply chain: Don’t hoard, just order what you need

At what point does an emergency response activation become the ‘new normal’?

OSHA fines hospitals for PPE failures related to COVID-19

The impossible year continues: Emergency response in 2020

Free PSMJ articles on Wildfires

Punching above your weight: Virtual inspections are coming!

Been through a disaster? There is help for recovery

Patient Safety Monitor Journal, September 2020

If you’re the AHJ, it really isn’t an “interpretation,” is it?

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