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Tip of the week: Assure employees of a safe workplace

Healthcare Security Weekly, February 4, 2008

Just as it's impossible to truly predict which type of emergency will affect your region--or worse yet, your hospital directly--it's also tough to guarantee how many workers will show up to care for disaster victims.

A survey that polled 306 workers at five urban hospitals asked whether they'd come to work after several kinds of disasters, including riots, infectious disease, and a mass power outage. The results were mixed. However, workers said they'd be more willing to show up if they received assurances about, among other factors, a safe workplace in the case of public unrest.

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