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EPA Webinars on New Hazardous Waste Pharmaceuticals Rule Rescheduled

The Environmental Protection Agency has rescheduled informational webinars on the upcoming requirements for handling hazardous waste pharmaceuticals that were postponed because of the partial government shutdown.

Newsletter Articles

Air pressures, cleaning, and maintenance critical to sterile compounding areas

Work with your pharmacy and infection control teams to ensure your facility’s sterile compounding area maintains the proper air pressures in the correct areas, ceilings are air-tight, and issues with cleaning, maintenance, and supply storage are addressed.

Know your hospital's electrical backup plan

A series of recent electrical grid failures, including a massive transformer station explosion in New York City and nationwide 911 outages, showed what can happen when the grid goes haywire—and demonstrated the need for solid backup plans.

Training tips: Safe sharps and needlestick prevention

Despite years of warnings of bloodborne infections and diseases, as well as improved safety devices, about 5.6 million workers are in danger, and many are still suffering sharps injuries in frightening numbers.


 

Mac's Safety Space

Power Up: When your generator doesn't carry a 30% load

Particularly for smaller facilities (or, I suppose, big places with multiple generators), consistently meeting the requirement for a 30% load during monthly generator testing activities can be a bit of a chore. And it can result in having to consider performing an annual load test at increasing loads, which usually means that you have to contract out that extra load test (and they ain’t cheap, all things being equal).


 

Webinar

Accreditation 101: A Beginner’s Guide to Hospital Surveys

February 19, 2019


 

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