For many hospital safety and quality leaders, accreditation once followed a predictable arc: a ramp up to survey day, stress during the survey visit, and then a return to normal operations. That approach is becoming increasingly misaligned with how OSHA inspectors, accrediting bodies, and...
Laboratory compliance programs have never suffered from a lack of policies. Instead, what they often struggle with is consistency—particularly during busy handoffs, staffing shortages, and routine operational pressure. As regulatory expectations tighten and inspections increasingly focus on how...
It’s no secret that one of the major threats to laboratory safety is the chemicals used within them. Yet, failure to properly store chemicals is one of the top citations in laboratory inspections.
If you’re serious about improving lab safety in 2026, the new year isn’t about shiny resolutions or rewrites to policies that no one reads. It’s about focus, prioritization, and solutions that actually work in the real world of specimen backlogs, staffing shortages, and alarms that never seem to...
