Editor’s choice: Responsibility for performing the weekly checks of eyewash stations
OSHA Healthcare Connection, January 17, 2012
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Check out “In your eyes – the light, the heat … the chemicals?” by Steve MacArthur, safety consultant for The Greeley Company, on whether emergency eyewash checks should be the responsibility of clinical, safety, or maintenance staff? See the comments, too.
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