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Inside Accreditation & Quality
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10

Time to remind staff about the fire dangers with decorations

December 29, 2025
Environment and Facilities, Fire & Life Safety
It’s October, so it’s about time to dust off the Scrooge costume for Halloween. ...
Inside Accreditation & Quality
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Use of Tasers and other control weapons remains a debate in hospitals

December 29, 2025
Environment and Facilities, Policies and Procedures, Workplace safety
Carefully review whether you want to allow security officers to carry conducted-electrical weapons (CEW) such as Taser® devices on your facility grounds. ...
Inside Accreditation & Quality
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EPA offers definitions for new management of hazardous waste drugs

December 29, 2025
Environment and Facilities, Infection Control, Policies and Procedures
In February, the EPA published a long-awaited final rule on the management of hazardous waste pharmaceuticals that creates a new section, Subpart P, under the federal Resource Conservation and Recover...
Inside Accreditation & Quality
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Ensure EPA compliance: Ban all sewering of hazardous waste drugs

December 29, 2025
Environment and Facilities, Infection Control, Policies and Procedures
Review and update policies on the disposal of pharmaceuticals to prohibit the flushing of any drugs into the sewers. ...
Mac's Safety Space
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13
Issue
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It’s a lot like you: The dangerous type of emergency risks!

September 24, 2019
Natural & Manmade Disasters, Environment and Facilities
By Steve MacArthur, Hospital Safety Consultant I know we chatted just last week about emergency management concerns, but once again, there’s more news stuff relating to the management of utility sy...
Mac's Safety Space
- Volume
13
Issue
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If you don’t signal, how will I know where you want to go? Emergency management and its discontents (Just What You Needed)!

September 17, 2019
Natural & Manmade Disasters, Environment and Facilities
By Steve MacArthur, Hospital Safety Consultant Kind of a mixed bag this week, though it all fits under the heading of emergency management, so here goes nothing… A few weeks ago, USA Today did a...
Accreditation & Quality Compliance Advisor
- Volume
13
Issue
39

What can we do about medical device security?

December 29, 2025
Environment and Facilities, Policies and Procedures, Quality & Errors
The risks range from exposing patients’ sensitive data to outright hijacking of devices, with potentially lethal consequences. ...
Mac's Safety Space
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13
Issue
9

Ground Control to Major Compliance: EOC, baby!

September 10, 2019
Environment and Facilities, Physical environment
By Steve MacArthur, Hospital Safety Consultant As September brings around the unwinding of summah, it also brings around The Joint Commission’s annual state of compliance sessions in locations acro...
Mac's Safety Space
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13
Issue
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Reusables vs. single-use: The next round in the World Series of Risk Assessments?

September 04, 2019
Environment and Facilities, Infection Control
By Steve MacArthur, Hospital Safety Consultant As summer starts its (hopefully) gradual fade into the record books and the marathon of the baseball season starts its kick to the finish line, it see...
Accreditation & Quality Compliance Advisor
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MGH Data Breach Affects 9,900 People

December 29, 2025
Environment and Facilities, Patient Safety, Policies and Procedures
Nearly 10,000 people are being notified by Massachusetts General Hospital that an unauthorized third-party had access to their personal information. ...

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