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Medical Environment Update

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HIPAA security best practices heading into 2023

February 12, 2026

Cybersecurity & Technology, Quality & Errors, Workplace safety

Workplace security. Life safety compliance. HIPAA privacy and security. They’re all intertwined with a common goal: safety for healthcare employees and patients. With that, we’re providing some HIP...

Accreditation & Quality Compliance Advisor

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OSHA proceeding with healthcare rulemakings

February 12, 2026

Environment and Facilities, Infection Control, Fire & Life Safety, Workplace safety, Physical environment

The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) will proceed with three rulemakings focused on the healthcare industry—standards for COVID-19, infectious diseases, and workplace violence—the ...

Healthcare Safety Leader

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Use these work tools to assess your workplace violence prevention plan

January 10, 2023

Accreditation & Survey Preparation, Environment and Facilities, Workplace safety

CMS is pushing hospitals and other healthcare organizations to ramp up their workplace violence prevention (WPV) plans even as The Joint Commission (TJC) is citing hospitals for nonexistent or incompl...

Medical Environment Update

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Safety training in and out of water

February 12, 2026

Laboratory Safety, Leadership & Finance, Workplace safety

A new workplace can seem daunting on the first day of a job. Employers provide information by fire hose and expect new staff to simply absorb it all—which can be dangerous. ...

Medical Environment Update

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New handbook tackles workplace violence prevention in healthcare

February 12, 2026

Workplace safety

Workplace violence in healthcare is its own epidemic: one that survey data puts some hard numbers on. According to a 2021 survey of nurses by Hospital IQ, 90% of respondents were considering leaving t...

Patient Safety Monitor Journal

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Q&A with Lauris Freidenfelds on healthcare security

February 12, 2026

Patient Safety, Workplace safety

Lauris V. Freidenfelds, vice president of security risk consulting with Telgian Engineering & Consulting, has been in many roles as a healthcare security leader. He’s a nationally recognized secur...

Healthcare Safety Leader

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Fire doors: A critical component of life safety in healthcare facilities

February 12, 2026

Environment and Facilities, Fire & Life Safety, Natural & Manmade Disasters, Physical environment, Workplace safety

Every healthcare facility staff member should be familiar with the acronym RACE, used to provide guidelines when responding to a fire emergency. Today we will discuss one of the often overlooked and f...

Mac's Safety Space

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Since this is the season for evergreens…

December 20, 2022

Natural & Manmade Disasters, Environment and Facilities, Workplace safety

Since this is the season for evergreens, let’s close out 2022 with a little eyewash station madness. ...

Mac's Safety Space

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This one (unfortunately) is not going away

December 19, 2022

Environment and Facilities, Workplace safety

As I write this, it is the anniversary of the mass shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut and I think you could make the case that the need for hospitals and other healthcare...

Medical Environment Update

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The Sub-Mariner and the attack of the safety shower

February 12, 2026

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

Those scenarios remind me of labs that suddenly need to use the emergency shower—and are quite unprepared for the event. ...

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HIPAA security best practices heading into 2023

OSHA proceeding with healthcare rulemakings

Use these work tools to assess your workplace violence prevention plan

Safety training in and out of water

New handbook tackles workplace violence prevention in healthcare

Q&A with Lauris Freidenfelds on healthcare security

Fire doors: A critical component of life safety in healthcare facilities

Since this is the season for evergreens…

This one (unfortunately) is not going away

The Sub-Mariner and the attack of the safety shower

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