Healthcare facilities aim to provide high-quality care to patients in an environment that is safe for workers. One of the ways facilities can ensure their staff’s safety is through a comprehensive sharps injury prevention program.
The manager walked into the lab to talk to Joan about the schedule. Joan was working with Mike, an older technologist who never seemed to follow the safety regulations of the laboratory. Joan was glad her manager was coming, because today Mike was wearing mesh sneakers, and he was chewing gum!...
This is part two of our interview with Sean G. Kaufman, CEO and founding partner of the lab safety company Safer Behaviors. MEU spoke to Kaufman about how to ensure that your laboratory design and standard operating procedures (SOP) allow staff to work in separate clean and dirty areas, while...
Ensure that your laboratory design and standard operating procedures (SOP) allow for separation of clean areas and dirty areas. In this article, expert Sean G. Kaufman discusses how to best use your laboratory environment to stay safe and to promote greatest adherence to the SOP.
Medication management is a critical component of healthcare, ensuring that patients receive the right medications at the right doses, thereby enhancing patient safety and care quality. However, it comes with numerous challenges and requires continuous adaptation to regulatory changes,...
The Office for Civil Rights (OCR) reached another resolution during its ongoing effort to ensure the comprehensive enforcement of the HIPAA Privacy Rule’s right of access provision.
This is Part 2 of our interview on laboratory emergency equipment with Sean G. Kaufman, CEO and founding partner of the lab safety company Safer Behaviors, covering necessities like fire extinguishers, spill kits, eyewash stations, and emergency showers.
Sitting in your laboratory, can you point out the nearest spill kit, fire extinguisher, eyewash station, and emergency shower? How long did it take you to locate them? Without looking, can you name the PPE and cleaning materials inside your spill kit? What type of fire extinguisher do you have?...
The purpose of a briefing is to create a shared mental model among all team members—whether there are two individuals on the team or 10. Simply stated, a mental model is a frame of reference used to interpret the world. In a given situation, we apply that frame of reference to make sense of...
