Environment and Facilities

Someone’s always checking for compliance when it comes to fire safety, especially in healthcare facilities. Naturally, that includes several...Read More »

Conducting an assessment is the first step to esnure compliance with The Joint Commission's workplace violence prevention requirements. Read More »

…and perhaps more importantly, the “why” you do the things you do.Read More »

Better environmental rounds was a chief recommendation for acute care and critical access hospitals who had maintenance problems with their...Read More »

Lately it seems that I’ve been running into risk assessments that “feel” more like incomplete thoughts in that all the risks within the assessed...Read More »

Once again, the reality of a potential active shooter in the healthcare environment takes ...Read More »

Risks in the laboratory can be split into two categories, says Sean G. Kaufman, CEO and founding partner of the lab safety...Read More »

Lance Woolf, MBA, CHSP, former life safety surveyor for The Joint Commission, knows what’s top of mind for those charged with...Read More »

In recognition that armed conflicts can have a wide-ranging impact, the HHS Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response’s Technical...Read More »

This photograph of a door to a fire exit was taken in a medical building. Those signs are the only signage for this door. Can you tell what’s...Read More »