Failure to identify or interrupt contact transmissions, droplet transmissions, airborne transmissions, environmental spread, and transport-related exposure can lead to hospital-associated infections, illness among staff members, delayed treatment, and operational disruption.
Fire systems, access control, video surveillance, and alarm infrastructure are often installed by different vendors, overseen by different teams, and updated on different timelines. As a result, critical systems do not share context when incidents occur.
Q: How should quality and accreditation leaders partner with IT and clinical leadership so that artificial intelligence (AI) supports compliance instead of creating new blind spots?
Despite the lack of uniform standards, common MRI-related injuries such as projectile incidents and radiofrequency burns are well understood and often highly preventable.
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is proposing a $103,265 fee on H-1B petitions subject to the annual visa cap, marking the Trump administration’s second attempt to significantly increase the cost of employing foreign specialized workers in the U.S.
In this guest column, Dan Scungio, MT(ASCP), SLS, laboratory safety officer for multihospital system Sentara Healthcare in Virginia, and otherwise known as “Dan, the Lab Safety Man,” discusses OSHA’s position on formaldehyde exposure monitoring.
Internal audits are a cornerstone of accreditation readiness, but in litigation, they demonstrate whether an organization actively identified and addressed risk before harm occurred.
Drug diversion is a pervasive problem across healthcare. Along with sound processes for prevention and detection, all organizations must have a dedicated response team to examine suspicious findings and determine appropriate next steps.
In healthcare environments, incidents of verbal aggression, intimidation, or harassment often occur before physical violence. Discover how hospitals can better recognize early warning signals and incorporate them into their workplace violence prevention programs.
Life safety and facilities leaders may face confusion following new construction. Although many projects are built according to updated standards, surveys often continue to cite older references.
