Newsletter Headlines Each month, Brad Keyes, CHSP, owner of Keyes Life Safety Compliance, answers your questions about life safety compliance. Our editorial advisory board also reviews the Q&A column. This month's topics include fire alarms in staff sleeping rooms, reproducing vaginal probes, emergency preparedness, and more.  Remember to provide fall-protection training to any worker at your facility who may be exposed to a fall of more than 4 feet and ensure any contractors are meeting the safety requirements under a newly revised OSHA standard. In addition, any fixed ladders over 24 feet must be equipped with fall arrest or safety systems. Bathroom floors, nurse call buttons, and ceiling vents are among the locations where you will most often find Clostridium difficile spores after both routine and terminal cleaning of patient rooms, a recent study stated. But the place where C. diff most frequently persists, threatening both patients and staff? Floor corners.
HCPro Product Spotlight Eyewash stations continue to confuse and confound healthcare organizations. Not only can they pose infection control and safety issues for workers, they can be a point of contention between HCOs and surveyors, who often seem to work by different sets of rules. During this webinar, expert John R. Rosing will explain what regulators like CMS, TJC, and OSHA expect from eyewash stations.
Mac's Safety Space May 24, 2018
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