Safety Newsletters

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Healthcare Life Safety Compliance

• Keyes Q&A: Door decorations, storage height, fire drills, surgery suites

  Q: I understand the Life Safety Code® (LSC) decoration rule, but in the long-term care...

• Keyes Q&A: Transfer switches, doors, fire extinguishers, emergency lights

  Editor’s note: Each month, Brad Keyes, CHSP, owner of Keyes Life Safety Compliance, answers...

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Hospital Safety Center

• PHE extended but surveys pushing forward, as is OSHA

  The public health emergency (PHE) declaration on COVID-19 has been extended another 90 days...

• More OSHA scrutiny on healthcare organizations, expanded whistleblower protections

  In March, OSHA issued its Updated Interim Enforcement Response Plan for Coronavirus Disease 2019...

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Medical Environment Update

• Designed for safety: Safety showers and floods

  Whenever Jacob, a histology lab employee, poured waste chemicals into the large barrel in the...

• A code to call for your lab co-worker

  A lab employee felt faint in the middle of her shift and quickly sat down on a lab stool. She...