Mac's Safety Space: Workers must soon offer formal input into medical equipment purchases
Hospital Safety Connection, September 22, 2008
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Join Steve MacArthur, safety consultant for The Greeley Company, as he offers advice and best practices on a variety of hospital safety topics on his blog, Mac’s Safety Space.
Mac writes in today’s posting that come 2009, “Joint Commission surveyors will likely want to see some sort of documentation that indicates staff members participated in reviewing purchased [medical] equipment if those workers would use the machines.”
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