Improve your hand hygiene compliance rates: Three insights from the University of Tennessee Medical Center

Source: Hospital Safety Insider

Why are hand hygiene rates so low? It’s because direct observation by secret shoppers, the most common way to evaluate hand hygiene compliance, creates a false sense of security.

If you don’t signal, how will I know where you want to go? Emergency management and its discontents (Just What You Needed)!

Source: Mac's Safety Space

Kind of a mixed bag this week, though it all fits under the heading of emergency management, so here goes nothing…

Keyes Q&A: Installing fire extinguishers, IT closets, active shooter security

Each month, Brad Keyes, CHSP, owner of Keyes Life Safety Compliance, answers your questions about life safety compliance. 

Q&A: Understand the risks and benefits of arming security

The issue of arming security officers in healthcare is complicated, and we asked longtime security consultant Lisa Terry, CHPA, CPP, vice president, vertical markets – healthcare, for Allied Universal in Charlotte, North Carolina, for help in sorting out concerns.

Time to remind staff about the fire dangers with decorations

It’s October, so it’s about time to dust off the Scrooge costume for Halloween. Remind hospital staff about what they can and cannot do with decorations during the upcoming holidays.

The lab and the Pharmaceutical Rule: Do they go together?

Many laboratorians may not have noticed, but in February of this year, the EPA published the Management Standards for Hazardous Waste Pharmaceuticals and Amendment to the P075 Listing for Nicotine, better known as the “Pharmaceutical Rule.” 

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Drug Diversion by Healthcare Personnel

Presented on: Monday, October 21, 2019 | 1:00–2:30 p.m. Eastern

Presented by: Kimberly New, BSN, JD

This webinar presented by expert speaker Kimberly New, BSN, JD, will explore current trends in drug diversion by healthcare personnel and will address how facilities can develop a straightforward approach to diversion prevention, detection, and response.

Attendees will have the opportunity at the end of the program for a live Q&A with the speaker.

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