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A psychiatric treatment center in Massachusetts faces more than $207,000 in proposed penalties after the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) accused the facility of failing to adequately protect employees from workplace violence, despite having promised specifically to do so. |
| Newsletter Articles Less than one week before its scheduled compliance date, OSHA officials delayed a new electronic recordkeeping rule that’s being challenged in more than one federal courtroom. The U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) announced that the new compliance date would be December 1, giving OSHA five months more to review “questions of law and policy” pertaining to the rule finalized last year. Southern Ocean Pediatrics and Family Medicine in Manahawkin, New Jersey, cut a check this month for more than $7,000 to the state treasurer’s office. The practice will do so again next month and each month thereafter until February. The payments aren’t for rent, special licensure fees, or insurance premiums. Rather, they’re being sent to the state to cover costs stemming from the mishandling of vaccines that were administered to as many as 900 children. Part of your everyday job as a hospital safety professional or engineer is dealing with the issue of stopping fire in its tracks. Clearly, one of the biggest enemies to a hospital (and its patients) is a fire because immobile patients can’t easily be evacuated. So it’s your job to make sure that any incipient fire gets stopped dead in its tracks and to make sure that smoke and toxic fumes can’t go anywhere. Marketing Spotlight These tools will help train chapter leaders and committee members to easily delegate the right forms to the right people on their committees. With this book in your hand, your entire team will be ready the moment surveyors walk in the door. News Headlines August 17, 2017 Is All of Your Team In The Know? Our weekly e-newsletters can keep your team abreast of up-to-date industry information; including expert analysis where you need it most. Subscribe to any -- or all -- of our e-newsletters. |
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