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OSHA Raises Its Civil Penalties for 2020 by Nearly 2%

December 27, 2025

Environment and Facilities, Policies and Procedures

The new penalty amounts take effect immediately, applying to any penalties assessed after January 15. ...

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The place of working dangerously: The importance of kitchen safety

January 14, 2020

Environment and Facilities, Physical environment

By Steve MacArthur, Hospital Safety Consultant Recently, I fielded a question regarding fire response plans for food services and got me to thinking about the importance (and challenges) of good sa...

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2020 starts with a whimper…probably mine!

January 07, 2020

Environment and Facilities, Accreditation & Survey Preparation

By Steve MacArthur, Hospital Safety Consultant A fairly brief opening salvo for the New Year: I am hoping it will continue to be difficult to come up with material for this space because that will ...

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Getting a word in edgewise: Take back the power!

December 31, 2019

Environment and Facilities

By Steve MacArthur, Hospital Safety Consultant We’re looking at a lot of cusps this week—the ending of one year and the beginning of another; the end of a decade and the beginning of the latest edi...

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I heard the bells! Or did I see three ships?

December 23, 2019

Environment and Facilities, Workplace safety

By Steve MacArthur, Hospital Safety Consultant Yet another mixed bag of festive goodies for you this week: I know you’ve all been good (our profession doesn’t really leave a lot of room for anythin...

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’Twas the week before Christmas and all through the…

December 17, 2019

Natural & Manmade Disasters, Environment and Facilities

By Steve MacArthur, Hospital Safety Consultant Do you ever find yourself at the end of the year with a list of random items that you just never got to? It’s not that they weren’t (or, indeed, aren’...

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Will you create TJC’s next Emergency Preparedness poster?

December 11, 2019

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

Selected posters will be exhibited at the Emergency Management Standards Base Camp on April 21, and at the 2020 Emergency Preparedness Conference on April 21 and 23. ...

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Fire safety may trump ligature risk, but surveyors likely will want both

December 17, 2019

Environment and Facilities, Fire & Life Safety, Accreditation & Survey Preparation, Behavioral & Mental Health

The Joint Commission’s (TJC) newest engineering director, Herman A. McKenzie, MBA, CHSP, told hospital leadership that life safety (LS) trumps ligature risk. But be prepared to not have a choice. ...

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Do you still BBI? Also, how do you spell survey finding?

December 10, 2019

Environment and Facilities, Physical environment, Cybersecurity & Technology

By Steve MacArthur, Hospital Safety Consultant N-O-I-N-V-E-N-T-O-R-Y While I am not convinced it every truly went away, next month marks the official return of one of the most (in)famous acronym...

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OSHA Raises Its Civil Penalties for 2020 by Nearly 2%

The place of working dangerously: The importance of kitchen safety

2020 starts with a whimper…probably mine!

Getting a word in edgewise: Take back the power!

I heard the bells! Or did I see three ships?

’Twas the week before Christmas and all through the…

Will you create TJC’s next Emergency Preparedness poster?

Fire safety may trump ligature risk, but surveyors likely will want both

Urgent Care Industry White Paper

Do you still BBI? Also, how do you spell survey finding?

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