Newsletter Headlines Each month, Brad Keyes, CHSP, owner of Keyes Life Safety Compliance, answers your questions about life safety compliance. Follow Keyes’ blog on life safety at www.keyeslifesafety.com for up-to-date information.  When hospitals were placed on OSHA’s list of high-risk workplaces, no one had to ask why. OSHA’s purpose, after all, is to ensure the protection of employees in unsafe working conditions. Being placed on the high-risk workplace list simply means that hospitals are now more frequently going to be inspected by OSHA without cause. That means labs across the nation will be visited as well—and many have been. Expect CMS surveyors to be referring to recommendations set out by The Joint Commission (TJC) last fall when looking for ligature risk and other environmental hazards in the push to make hospitals and psychiatric units safer for patients at-risk of self-harm. The Guidelines now focus on safe handling for “patients of size,” a switch in terminology away from bariatrics that’s meant to account for not only a patient’s weight, but also height and distribution of weight throughout the body.
HCPro Product Spotlight Formerly of The Joint Commission, current HFAP life safety surveyor and independent consultant Brad Keyes, CHSP, provides a practical, strategic approach to the life safety survey process. He walks you through a room-by-room, floor-by-floor analysis of the life safety measures you must have in place to avoid costly citations. The book simplifies Joint Commission standards and CMS requirements and focuses on ways to pass your next life safety survey.
Mac's Safety Space September 27, 2018
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