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Medical Environment Update

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Spot check your facility’s holiday decorations

October 23, 2023

Environment and Facilities, Workplace safety

It comes with the territory of being the safety officer that you are responsible to make sure holiday decorations do not affect the overall safety of your facility. The Life Safety Code®, which CMS an...

Accreditation & Quality Compliance Advisor

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Recruiting and retaining nurses: A critical challenge facing the healthcare industry

December 13, 2025

Workplace safety, Healthcare Staff

Recruiting, staffing, and retaining nurses who are knowledgeable, skilled, and experienced is an evergreen concern for healthcare organizations. As the demographic makeup of the U.S. nursing populatio...

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NIOSH: Healthcare workers most injured by sharps

December 13, 2025

Infection Control, Laboratory Safety, Workplace safety, Healthcare Staff

Most sharps injuries—84%—occur among healthcare workers, the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) confirmed in a recently released analysis. Injuries from a needle or other sh...

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Q&A: Can you make lab safety training engaging? : Part 2

December 13, 2025

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

Sean G. Kaufman, CEO and founding partner of the lab safety company Safer Behaviors, offered Medical Environment Update some suggestions on engagement in a recent interview. ...

Mac's Safety Space

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Mac’s Safety Space: When you can’t swat back

September 18, 2023

Natural & Manmade Disasters, Environment and Facilities, Workplace safety

Here are some things you can do to make it as difficult as possible for someone to “swat” your organization. ...

Medical Environment Update

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Q&A: Can you make lab safety training engaging? : Part 1

December 13, 2025

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

Getting staff engaged with safety training can be the difference between them remembering how to do something safely and them injuring themselves or others. ...

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CDC offers hurricane safety tips

December 13, 2025

Natural & Manmade Disasters, Environment and Facilities, Patient Safety, Workplace safety

In the wake of Tropical Storm Hilary in California and Hurricane Idalia in the Gulf Coast, make sure that your patients and staff know how to stay safe after a major storm or flooding. The CDC has put...

Patient Safety Monitor Journal

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Safety lessons that healthcare can learn from aviation: Part 1

December 13, 2025

Leadership & Finance, Patient Safety, Quality & Errors, Workplace safety

There are key differences between healthcare and aviation, says Jeffrey Salvon-Harman, MD, CPE, CPPS, vice president at the Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI) and an aviation safety expert. Bu...

Medical Environment Update

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Lab Safety Man: Three rules regarding chemical waste in the laboratory

December 13, 2025

Laboratory Safety, Workplace safety

The lab technologist approached the lab safety officer (LSO) to ask what should be done with a collection of liquid wastes that were collected from the chemistry analyzers. The LSO had worked with mul...

Mac's Safety Space

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Mac’s Safety Space: Managing aggressive behavior—some next steps to consider

September 04, 2023

Environment and Facilities, Workplace safety

Among the many unique challenges to healthcare safety and security folks, the management of aggressive behavior and workplace violence probably stands a little more prominently in the hierarchy. ...

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Spot check your facility’s holiday decorations

Recruiting and retaining nurses: A critical challenge facing the healthcare industry

NIOSH: Healthcare workers most injured by sharps

Q&A: Can you make lab safety training engaging? : Part 2

Mac’s Safety Space: When you can’t swat back

Q&A: Can you make lab safety training engaging? : Part 1

CDC offers hurricane safety tips

Safety lessons that healthcare can learn from aviation: Part 1

Lab Safety Man: Three rules regarding chemical waste in the laboratory

Mac’s Safety Space: Managing aggressive behavior—some next steps to consider

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