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Healthcare Safety Leader

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Looking ahead: Choosing the right tools for snow removal

August 29, 2023

Environment and Facilities, Workplace safety

Ahead of winter, ensure you have the proper equipment for snow removal, especially if your facility is in an area of the country that sees a lot of the white stuff. ...

Medical Environment Update

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Departmental Workplace Violence Assessment (courtesy Bryan Warren)

December 13, 2025

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...

Patient Safety Monitor Journal

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Improving customer service in behavioral health

December 13, 2025

Behavioral & Mental Health, Patient Safety, Policies and Procedures, Workplace safety

While the term might invoke images of restaurants, hotels, and store clerks rather than healthcare, customer service is about working with stressed, unhappy, or potentially violent customers/patients ...

Medical Environment Update

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Observe eye safety in the laboratory this August

December 13, 2025

Natural & Manmade Disasters, Laboratory Safety, Workplace safety

August is Children’s Eye Health and Safety Month, and while hopefully your laboratory staff aren’t children, they should know the protocols for eye protection when dealing with hazardous materials. Am...

Patient Safety Monitor Journal

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Addressing moral injury in healthcare (Q&A, Part 2)

December 13, 2025

Behavioral & Mental Health, Healthcare Staff, Workplace safety

The following is part two of our interview with Maya Bizri, MD, MPH, a psychiatrist and consultation-liaison psychiatrist looking for solutions to provide support for healthcare providers working in l...

Accreditation & Quality Compliance Advisor

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Dealing with life’s daily crisis moments in healthcare

December 13, 2025

Workplace safety

A new survey by the Crisis Prevention Institute (CPI) takes a deep dive into workplace violence in healthcare, finding that 40% of the 3,155 respondents believe their staff feel comfortable addressing...

Patient Safety Monitor Journal

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Moral injury doesn’t just happen to doctors in war zones (Q&A, Part 1)

December 13, 2025

Behavioral & Mental Health, Healthcare Staff, Workplace safety

Moral injury is taking a mental and emotional toll on healthcare providers everywhere, from those treating refugees from the wars in Ukraine and Sudan to those at home writing prescriptions they know ...

Medical Environment Update

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Create disaster kits to provide staff items they may need in an emergency

December 13, 2025

Natural & Manmade Disasters, Workplace safety

Create easy to store and quick to move disaster kits to provide staff items they may need in an emergency. ...

Accreditation & Quality Compliance Advisor

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Florida healthcare facility cited for nearly 200 workplace violence incidents in 2022

December 13, 2025

Environment and Facilities, Workplace safety

The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) announced “shocking” findings of a workplace safety investigation into a behavioral health and substance disorder facility in Jacksonville, Fla...

Medical Environment Update

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Q&A: Biorisk and biosecurity management in the laboratory

December 13, 2025

Laboratory Safety, Workplace safety

Biorisk and biosecurity management protects lab workers and the communities they work in from the unintended, or intended, release of biological agents. The importance of this cannot be overstated, gi...

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Looking ahead: Choosing the right tools for snow removal

Departmental Workplace Violence Assessment (courtesy Bryan Warren)

Improving customer service in behavioral health

Observe eye safety in the laboratory this August

Addressing moral injury in healthcare (Q&A, Part 2)

Dealing with life’s daily crisis moments in healthcare

Moral injury doesn’t just happen to doctors in war zones (Q&A, Part 1)

Create disaster kits to provide staff items they may need in an emergency

Florida healthcare facility cited for nearly 200 workplace violence incidents in 2022

Q&A: Biorisk and biosecurity management in the laboratory

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