How can we better protect hospital workers from hazardous drugs?

Source: Hospital Safety Insider

There are pros and cons to most things in life, and chemotherapy is no different. While it can be extremely effective for patients battling cancer, it can also be damaging to healthy people, such as pharmacists, nurses, doctors, and other hospital staff.

The chronic issue of cybersecurity

Source: Hospital Safety Insider

Healthcare institutions large and small can be left black and blue by a cyberattack. Larger institutions have more patients and thus have more user health records that attackers can compromise. Smaller institutions, on the other hand, may not have the financial resources to protect themselves against an attack or respond to one when it occurs.

People get ready: There’s a (survey) train a-coming!

Source: Mac's Safety Space

Our good friends over at ASHE’s Health Facilities Management magazine recently published an article describing some of the ways facilities and safety professionals can effectively manage the accreditation process, primarily as a function of survey preparedness/readiness. 

Lessons learned from a death outside a hospital's doorstep

You may have been following the story of the tragic and preventable death of a young woman outside the doors of Somerville (Massachusetts) Hospital in the early morning hours of September 16, 2016. The woman, 34-year-old Laura Levis, suffered an asthma attack and walked to Somerville Hospital, only to find the entrance she arrived at closed and locked

Follow these tips for before, during, after next big storm

If the National Hurricane Center’s projections are right, this season may not be too bad. The season ends officially November 30, but weather experts say we’re in for 14 named storms, with half of them slated to become at least Category 3 strength. Are you ready?

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