Newsletter Articles As the new year gets underway and winter weather throughout the country starts to take hold, injuries to both healthcare workers and patients will begin to mount. According to OSHA, musculoskeletal disorders (MSD) are one of the biggest sources of injuries to healthcare workers. They’re usually related to slips, trips, and falls, or to unsafe patient handling practices.  A new year brings new beginnings, and many hospitals will enter 2019 either with new construction projects on the horizon or with projects already in progress. Lest you forget the power of the accreditation agencies that will be monitoring your efforts, though, you should be aware of many things that could affect those projects from a life safety perspective. Tell your nurses that soon that packaging for a patient’s nicotine patch, gum, or lozenge might go straight into the regular trash — as long as it is FDA-approved as an over-the-counter nicotine replacement therapy.
Mac's Safety Space In looking back at 2018 (heck, even in looking back to the beginning of 2019—it already seems like forever ago and we’re only a week in!), I try to use the available data (recognizing that we will have additional data sometime towards the end of March/beginning of April when The Joint Commission (TJC) reveals its top 10 most frequently cited standards list) to hazard a guess on where things are heading as we embark upon the 2019 survey year.
Marketing Spotlight November 27, 2018
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