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Mac's Safety Space

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Mac's Safety Space: Ain’t nothing like the real thing

February 27, 2023

Natural & Manmade Disasters, Environment and Facilities, Fire & Life Safety

Even those of you who know most of my back story might not necessarily have made the connection (there are certainly ample clues on LinkedIn), but my first 20-plus years in healthcare were spent worki...

Medical Environment Update

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Focus on worker fall prevention and safety

December 16, 2025

Environment and Facilities, Laboratory Safety, Leadership & Finance, Policies and Procedures, Workplace safety

We spoke with Steve MacArthur, a safety consultant with Chartis Clinical Quality Solutions, about a healthcare facility’s safety obligations toward its contracted workers. This Q&A has been lightl...

Accreditation & Quality Compliance Advisor

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Review fire and evacuation protocols in wake of recent hospital fire near Boston

February 08, 2023

Environment and Facilities, Fire & Life Safety

Review fire and evacuation drills to ensure you can get all patients and visitors out without injury or death, just as a Massachusetts hospital did on Tuesday, February 7, after a transformer caught f...

Medical Environment Update

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What is a safety stand-down?

December 16, 2025

Environment and Facilities, Laboratory Safety, Workplace safety

In 2016, because of several incidents in national high-containment laboratories, a “safety stand-down” was recommended. That term gets used often, but not everyone understands how a safety stand-down ...

Healthcare Safety Leader

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Contractor hurt on the job? OSHA may investigate your facility

February 14, 2023

Environment and Facilities, Workplace safety

OSHA inspectors were among those who responded to the site to conduct an investigation when a worker died after falling several stories from the roof of a Massachusetts hospital building in January. ...

Mac's Safety Space

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Mac's Safety Space: Who knows where the time goes?

February 13, 2023

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

Originally, I had planned this for sometime in January, but suddenly I find myself on the cusp of February and the “packing up the decorations” conversation is way past due. ...

Mac's Safety Space

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Location, location, location!

February 06, 2023

Accreditation & Survey Preparation, Environment and Facilities

Any time there’s a shift in focus when it comes to healthcare leadership, I like to ponder how it might end up impacting the management of the physical environment. ...

Healthcare Safety Leader

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Departmental Workplace Violence Assessment (courtesy Bryan Warren)

January 30, 2023

Environment and Facilities, Workplace safety

(Departmental workplace violence risk assessment courtesy of Bryan Warren, president and chief consultant for WarSec Security; for more information on this tool, go here; for a downloadable copy of th...

Mac's Safety Space

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Making sure folks can’t break on through to the other side…

January 30, 2023

Environment and Facilities, Fire & Life Safety, Workplace safety

One of the critical aspects of managing the security of your building is effectively “hardening” your perimeter, which to a fair degree means that you’ll have to secure some doors. ...

Healthcare Safety Leader

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Tips on life safety and environment of care from experienced professionals

January 24, 2023

Accreditation & Survey Preparation, Environment and Facilities

The last 12 months have seen a lot of changes in hospital life safety and environment of care. Here are some compliance tips healthcare facility managers have shared to make survey preparation easier....

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Mac's Safety Space: Ain’t nothing like the real thing

Focus on worker fall prevention and safety

Review fire and evacuation protocols in wake of recent hospital fire near Boston

What is a safety stand-down?

Contractor hurt on the job? OSHA may investigate your facility

Mac's Safety Space: Who knows where the time goes?

Location, location, location!

Departmental Workplace Violence Assessment (courtesy Bryan Warren)

Making sure folks can’t break on through to the other side…

Tips on life safety and environment of care from experienced professionals

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