Workplace safety | .accreditationqualitycenter

Keeping healthcare workers safe and healthy is a crucial part of maintaining a high quality healthcare facility

Patient Safety Monitor Journal

- Volume

Issue

Coronavirus: Tiered staffing recommended to bolster critical care

February 16, 2026

Quality & Errors, Workplace safety, Infection Control

The Society of Critical Care Medicine (SCCM) is recommending a tiered staffing model for hospitals opening new ICUs in response to the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. To avoid rationing of c...

Inside Accreditation & Quality

- Volume

Issue

Use these tips on security during pandemic preparations

February 16, 2026

Environment and Facilities, Infection Control, Workplace safety

Bryan Warren, MBA, CHPA, CPOI, is a healthcare security professional, president and chief consultant of WarSec Security, and a past president of the International Association for Healthcare Security a...

Inside Accreditation & Quality

- Volume

Issue

Continue to secure supplies as long as national crisis evolves

February 16, 2026

Natural & Manmade Disasters, Environment and Facilities, Infection Control, Workplace safety

Keeping supplies in-house may continue to be a security problem as long as COVID-19 grips the nation. Not only are hospitals grappling with trying to find N95 medical masks and other personal prote...

Inside Accreditation & Quality

- Volume

Issue

Inside Accreditation and Quality, April 2020

February 16, 2026

Accreditation & Survey Preparation, Patient Safety, Policies and Procedures, Infection Control, Workplace safety

Subscribers, download this month's full IAQ newsletter ...

Accreditation & Quality Compliance Advisor

- Volume

Issue

Duke Health to begin reusing N95 masks

February 16, 2026

Infection Control, Workplace safety

Researchers at Duke Health this week announced a way to sterilize masks using aerosolized hydrogen peroxide. The gas doesn’t damage the mask material or change its fit, but kills off viruses and germs...

Accreditation & Quality Compliance Advisor

- Volume

Issue

COVID-19: Hospitals should consider CoP carefully before deciding on DNR policy

February 16, 2026

Environment and Facilities, Leadership & Finance, Patient Safety, Policies and Procedures, Infection Control, Workplace safety

As the nation grapples with the 2019 novel coronavirus, clinicians and others in facilities have discussed whether to implement blanket “Do Not Resuscitate” (DNR) orders for COVID-19 patients, accordi...

Accreditation & Quality Compliance Advisor

- Volume

Issue

COVID-19: Non-profit group partners with biotech consortium to crowd-source PPE solutions

March 23, 2020

Natural & Manmade Disasters, Infection Control, Workplace safety

Healthcare Ready, a nonprofit that works to strengthen public-and private-sector healthcare supply chains, and Bio, a consortium of biotech and pharmaceutical companies promoting innovation, have part...

COVID-19: OSHA relaxes respirator fit-testing enforcement under certain circumstances

March 17, 2020

Accreditation & Survey Preparation, Natural & Manmade Disasters, Infection Control, Workplace safety

In further recognition of the short supply of protective N95 respirators for healthcare workers treating suspected or confirmed patients with COVID-19, OSHA is relaxing enforcement of annual fit testi...

Mac's Safety Space

- Volume

Issue

I sit at my table and wage war on myself—and earn an OSHA citation!

February 10, 2020

Environment and Facilities, Workplace safety

By Steve MacArthur, Hospital Safety Consultant While I have a sneaking suspicion that this Top 10 list doesn’t change a whole lot from year to year (other than position in the hierarchy), I thought...

Inside Accreditation & Quality

- Volume

Issue

Creating a culture that puts an end to sexual harassment in healthcare

February 16, 2026

Policies and Procedures, Workplace safety

7% of physicians and 11% of nurses, nurse practitioners, and physician assistants had experienced sexual harassment. ...

Subscribe to Workplace safety

Coronavirus: Tiered staffing recommended to bolster critical care

Use these tips on security during pandemic preparations

Continue to secure supplies as long as national crisis evolves

Inside Accreditation and Quality, April 2020

Duke Health to begin reusing N95 masks

COVID-19: Hospitals should consider CoP carefully before deciding on DNR policy

COVID-19: Non-profit group partners with biotech consortium to crowd-source PPE solutions

COVID-19: OSHA relaxes respirator fit-testing enforcement under certain circumstances

I sit at my table and wage war on myself—and earn an OSHA citation!

Creating a culture that puts an end to sexual harassment in healthcare

Resource/w tools selected

STET CMS & tools

OSHA Dental Facilities Update - November 2023

OSHA Medical Facilities Update - November 2023

Tab 2, Medical Facilities OSHA Manual- August 2023

Tab 2, Dental Facility OSHA Manual- August 2023

Chapter 2: Chapter Format and Tracer Planning