Articles in Mac's Safety Space - Volume 14 Issue 2

Mac's Safety Space - Volume 14, Issue 2

Identifying issues and finding solutions…

February 24, 2020
Environment and Facilities, Physical environment, Accreditation & Survey Preparation
By Steve MacArthur, Hospital Safety Consultant

…versus identifying issues and pointing fingers.

I think we can all agree that (at least for the moment) our friends in the regulatory survey services world have...

Mac's Safety Space - Volume 14, Issue 2

On your marks, get set, sweat!

February 18, 2020
Environment and Facilities, Accreditation & Survey Preparation
By Steve MacArthur, Hospital Safety Consultant

But hopefully not a Billy Idol kind of sweat…

Our friends in Chicago are once again tweaking the survey process, with the result being less time for surveyors to...

Mac's Safety Space - Volume 14, Issue 2

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 it would be of...

Mac's Safety Space - Volume 14, Issue 2

What we all want: If everything is priority one, then everything is priority none

February 3, 2020
Environment and Facilities, Accreditation & Survey Preparation
By Steve MacArthur, Hospital Safety Consultant

As our friends from Chicago appear to be embarking in earnest on their charge to be as unpredictable as possible (I know of one instance in which a triennial survey “...