Web site spotlight: Time for hospitals to issue holiday decorations memo
Nurse Manager Weekly, October 12, 2009
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When he was one of The Joint Commission's life safety surveyors, Brad Keyes, CHSP, recalls walking into a hospital around the time of Halloween and seeing three bales of real hay and an actual scarecrow in the lobby.
"Hey, this is Halloween. This is fun and looks nice. Yeah?you're written up," Keyes told attendees at HCPro's "Life Safety Code Solutions for Hospitals" seminar last week in Boston. Keyes is a safety consultant with The Greeley Company, a division of HCPro, Inc., in Marblehead, MA.
The Joint Commission and Life Safety Code ban combustible decorations unless they are flame-resistant, so the hay and scarecrow, while festive, were in fact a potential fire hazard that could result in a citation from surveyors.
With Halloween still a few weeks off, now is a good time for CEOs to sit down with safety officers, review decoration policies, and issue annual reminders about what types of decorations employees can properly display. Safety officers risk being viewed as Scrooges without CEOs backing them up on decoration enforcement.
Editor?s note: To read the rest of this article, visit ?Time for Hospitals to Issue Holiday Decorations Memo? found in the Reading Room at www.StrategiesForNurseManagers.com.
Do you need continuing education (CE) credits? Check out this month?s CE article to learn about flu pandemic preparation or visit our archives and view a compilation of CE articles (marked with an asterisk).
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