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Accreditation & Quality Compliance Advisor

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Emergency department agitation code response team reduces use of physical restraints

December 19, 2025

Environment and Facilities, Policies and Procedures, Workplace safety

A team-based approach to responding to agitated patients in the Emergency Department (ED) setting can result in a significant decrease in the utilization of physical restraints, a recent journal artic...

Mac's Safety Space

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It’s not like they’re going to stop looking over shoulders…

December 13, 2021

Environment and Facilities, Workplace safety

By Steve MacArthur, Hospital Safety Consultant As we close in on the second anniversary of when everything went (more) sideways (than usual), all things COVID seem to be heating up for the holidays...

Accreditation & Quality Compliance Advisor

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OSHA extends public comment on COVID-19 vaccine rule

December 01, 2021

Infection Control, Workplace safety

by A.J. Plunkett (aplunkett@decisionhealth.com) Didn’t have time to gather your thoughts yet on OSHA’s emergency temporary standard (ETS) requiring vaccination and testing for employers with 100 or...

Medical Environment Update

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Asking the wrong safety questions

December 19, 2025

Laboratory Safety, Policies and Procedures, Workplace safety

Many years ago, I was hired to perform a safety audit for a laboratory. As I walked through one department, an employee asked what I was doing. When I remarked that I was looking for safety issues to ...

Patient Safety Monitor Journal

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Mental health over the holidays: A tough time for patients and providers

December 19, 2025

Behavioral & Mental Health, Patient Safety, Workplace safety

The holidays are a stressful time for many people, even without the added burdens of the COVID-19 pandemic, supply chain issues, seasonal affective disorder (SAD), increased alcohol and substance use,...

Medical Environment Update

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Medical Environment Update, December 2021

December 19, 2025

Workplace safety

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Mac's Safety Space

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I think the people down the hall know who we are…

November 29, 2021

Environment and Facilities, Physical environment, Infection Control, Workplace safety

By Steve MacArthur, Hospital Safety Consultant As we start moving (in what is likely to be a sprint) towards the end of the year, a couple of items for your consideration. First up, in the Decem...

Mac's Safety Space

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Hanging on in quiet desperation is the safety way

December 19, 2025

Workplace safety

By Steve MacArthur, Hospital Safety Consultant Thought I’d something more to say… Beware the alligator roll: One quick item for your consideration (I’ve been “sitting” on this one for a little ...

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OSHA suspends enforcement of its vaccine mandate

November 18, 2021

Workplace safety, Infection Control

OSHA has suspended enforcement of its COVID-19 vaccination and testing emergency temporary standard (ETS) while the requirement is challenged in court, according to a statement on the agency’s ETS inf...

Patient Safety Monitor Journal

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Did they mean to hit me? The need for a clear work-place violence definition

December 19, 2025

Leadership & Finance, Workplace safety

Healthcare and social assistance workers are five times more likely to be injured or require time off work because of WPV, according to OSHA. The Joint Commission reports that 73% of nonfatal workplac...

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Emergency department agitation code response team reduces use of physical restraints

It’s not like they’re going to stop looking over shoulders…

OSHA extends public comment on COVID-19 vaccine rule

Asking the wrong safety questions

Mental health over the holidays: A tough time for patients and providers

Medical Environment Update, December 2021

I think the people down the hall know who we are…

Hanging on in quiet desperation is the safety way

OSHA suspends enforcement of its vaccine mandate

Did they mean to hit me? The need for a clear work-place violence definition

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