Safety Articles by Topic: Infection Control
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Hospital Safety Insider, Issue 6, February 1, 2013
Some people with the flu emit more of the air-borne virus than others, suggesting that the current...
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Hospital Safety Insider, Issue 6, February 1, 2013
This may be a first for medical laboratory medicine. In England, researchers used real-time...
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Hospital Safety Insider, Issue 5, January 24, 2013
As hospitals continue to see an onslaught of flu patients, they also face challenges to flu...
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Hospital Safety Insider, Issue 4, January 18, 2013
Following last year's season of low activity, influenza is surging across the country and as of...
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Hospital Safety Insider, Issue 1, January 1, 2013
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved Sirturo (bedaquiline) as part of combination...
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Hospital Safety Insider, Issue 53, December 27, 2012
The Nevada Supreme Court has ruled that a racketeering charge against high-profile Las Vegas...
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Hospital Safety Insider, Issue 52, December 20, 2012
Coordinated surveillance and isolation of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA...
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Hospital Safety Insider, Issue 52, December 20, 2012
A new process to make a one-time, universal influenza vaccine has been discovered by a researcher...
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Hospital Safety Insider, Issue 47, November 15, 2012
An outbreak of the hospital superbug MRSA has been brought to an end by UK doctors cracking the...
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OSHA Healthcare Connection, Issue 25, June 19, 2012
Q: We are a low-risk setting for TB. What is the follow-up when a new worker has a positive skin...
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OSHA Healthcare Connection, Issue 5, January 31, 2012
The Association of periOperative Registered Nurses hopes two new recommendations will prompt...
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OSHA Healthcare Connection, Issue 52, December 6, 2011
For those responsible for ensuring compliance with healthcare worker immunizations, the CDC has...
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OSHA Healthcare Connection, Issue 52, December 6, 2011
While many areas in our lives strive to go paperless, it, meaning paper, is still around, and its...
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OSHA Healthcare Connection, Issue 49, November 15, 2011
Most institutional requirements for flu shots among staff members are not as strict or as...
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OSHA Healthcare Connection, Issue 47, November 1, 2011
Does your outpatient setting meet the requirement of having at least one individual with training...
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Hospital Safety Insider, Issue 41, October 13, 2011
Drug companies must pay a total of $20.1 million to five plaintiffs affected by an outbreak of...
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Hospital Safety Insider, Issue 39, September 29, 2011
The physician at a Las Vegas clinic associated a hepatitis outbreak is competent to stand trial.
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OSHA Healthcare Connection, Issue 42, September 27, 2011
Check out the Briefings on Infection Control article: “Bedbugs: What to do when bedbugs...
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OSHA Healthcare Connection, Issue 40, September 13, 2011
Hospital workers in Washington state lead the nation in flu immunizations, according to the...
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OSHA Healthcare Connection, Issue 39, September 6, 2011
New Jersey isn’t sleeping tight with bedbugs as the state’s Senate passed a bill...
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OSHA Healthcare Connection, Issue 39, September 6, 2011
The best way to get healthcare workers to wash their hands is not to scare them about their own...
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OSHA Healthcare Connection, Issue 39, September 6, 2011
Could you show proof of a bedbug extermination plan being in place in your healthcare facility...
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OSHA Healthcare Connection, Issue 38, August 30, 2011
The practicality of custom-tailored isolation gowns may not be right around the corner, but...
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OSHA Healthcare Connection, Issue 32, August 9, 2011
Safety needles only for HIV and hepatitis patients; wiping and rinsing semi-critical instruments...
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OSHA Healthcare Connection, Issue 31, August 2, 2011
Do you agree with the statement by a World Health Organization official that a hospital stay places...
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OSHA Healthcare Connection, Issue 30, July 26, 2011
Nonclinical healthcare workers were just as likely to come down with the flu as were clinical...
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OSHA Healthcare Connection, Issue 30, July 26, 2011
The Immunization Action Coalition is promoting a free video focusing on eliminating unsafe...
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OSHA Healthcare Connection, Issue 29, July 19, 2011
The CDC has posted a new checklist: Prevention Checklist for Outpatient Settings: Minimum...
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OSHA Healthcare Connection, Issue 28, July 12, 2011
In the Federal Register, OSHA published notice of two stakeholder meetings on July 29 to gather...
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OSHA Healthcare Connection, Issue 27, July 5, 2011
Q: Is it an OSHA regulation that a carry-out coffee with a lid on the container cannot be brought...
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OSHA Healthcare Connection, Issue 25, June 21, 2011
Requiring workers who decline flu shots to wear masks from November through March is credited with...
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OSHA Healthcare Connection, Issue 24, June 14, 2011
A CDC report shows how states compared on vaccination coverage for last year’s flu season and...
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OSHA Healthcare Connection, Issue 24, June 14, 2011
Q: What is OSHA’s position on mandatory flu shots for healthcare workers?
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OSHA Healthcare Connection, Issue 24, June 14, 2011
By 2020, will the U.S. meet the CDC’s Healthy People influenza vaccination rate target of 80...
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OSHA Healthcare Connection, Issue 23, June 7, 2011
Is cell phone usage a detriment to patient and worker safety in your healthcare facility?
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Hospital Safety Insider, Issue 70, May 26, 2011
The following is an excerpt from the May issue of Briefings on Hospital Safety
Pay close attention...
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OSHA Healthcare Connection, Issue 21, May 24, 2011
The May Briefings on Infection Control focuses on pertussis, also known as whooping cough, and how...
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Hospital Safety Insider, Issue 69, May 19, 2011
HCPro’s OSHA Healthcare Advisor reported last week that an assisted living facility was fined...
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OSHA Healthcare Connection, Issue 18, May 3, 2011
How common is the use of smartphone or mobile application technology in the healthcare workplace...
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OSHA Healthcare Connection, Issue 17, April 26, 2011
The Food and Drug Administration is warning consumers not to believe the claims of hand sanitizer...
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Hospital Safety Insider, Issue 65, April 21, 2011
Q: A question about transporting blood and urine samples. Do the samples need to be in a biohazard...
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OSHA Healthcare Connection, Issue 16, April 19, 2011
If a state health department inspector appeared at your facility today, could you pass inspection?
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OSHA Healthcare Connection, Issue 15, April 12, 2011
Q: In home care, are nurses and other staff providing care to patients in their homes required to...
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OSHA Healthcare Connection, Issue 13, March 29, 2011
The CDC has added information with “Notes from the Field: Contamination of Alcohol Prep Pads...
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OSHA Healthcare Connection, Issue 12, March 22, 2011
A bill proposed in the New York state legislature would make it a felony for healthcare workers if...
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OSHA Healthcare Connection, Issue 10, March 8, 2011
The Committee to Reduce Infection Deaths in New York City suggests hospitals start banning workers...
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Hospital Safety Insider, Issue 58, March 3, 2011
Q: We have been having a discussion about the linens in our ear, nose, and throat (ENT) clinic...
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OSHA Healthcare Connection, Issue 9, March 1, 2011
An investigation by the CDC confirmed that fingerstick devices at an assisted-living facility was...
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Hospital Safety Insider, Issue 57, February 24, 2011
Q: We're concerned about whether the way our mops and rags are laundered are up to Joint Commission...
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Hospital Safety Insider, Issue 56, February 17, 2011
One of the main issues hospitals face when it comes to clean air quality is the patients they tend...
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OSHA Healthcare Connection, Issue 7, February 15, 2011
The Dayton Veterans Administration Hospital will provide hepatitis and HIV testing to 553...
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OSHA Healthcare Connection, Issue 7, February 15, 2011
In her “Sterile Matters” feature, OSHA Healthcare Advisor blogger Michele DeMeo writes...
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OSHA Healthcare Connection, Issue 7, February 15, 2011
The Joint Commission released a monograph that explained how healthcare professionals are more...
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Hospital Safety Insider, Issue 55, February 10, 2011
I was doing some work recently when I came upon an interesting situation. During the course of the...
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OSHA Healthcare Connection, Issue 4, January 25, 2011
With healthcare workers performing hand hygiene more than the average U.S. consumer, is there a...
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Hospital Safety Insider, Issue 52, January 20, 2011
Calling all dust busters, feather dusters, and brooms: The University of Missouri Health Care needs...
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OSHA Healthcare Connection, Issue 3, January 18, 2011
A new tool created by the New Jersey Hospital Association will help nursing homes deal with an...
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OSHA Healthcare Connection, Issue 2, January 11, 2011
The feature article for the January issue of Medical Environment Update reports on a gathering of...
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OSHA Healthcare Connection, Issue 2, January 11, 2011
When new technology is introduced into your work routine, do you ever question the possibility of...
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OSHA Healthcare Connection, Issue 1, January 4, 2011
New infection-control technology had unintended consequences for New Jersey emergency medical...
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OSHA Healthcare Connection, Issue 1, January 4, 2011
A survey done by Halls, the cough drop maker, found that economic considerations play a significant...
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OSHA Healthcare Connection, Issue 49, December 14, 2010
With Healthy People 2020 promising a prevention and reduction of healthcare-associated infections...
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OSHA Healthcare Connection, Issue 48, November 30, 2010
The CDC says that a lack of communication and inadequate infection control practices probably...
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OSHA Healthcare Connection, Issue 47, November 23, 2010
A hospital in Toronto banned magazines from the waiting room in order to prevent the spread of...
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OSHA Healthcare Connection, Issue 45, November 9, 2010
Q: What’s the OSHA requirement for laundering privacy or cubicle curtains in an ambulatory...
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OSHA Healthcare Connection, Issue 43, October 26, 2010
There have been more and more reports about bedbugs, even in healthcare.
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OSHA Healthcare Connection, Issue 42, October 19, 2010
A lawsuit filed against pharmaceutical company Pfizer Inc. is being reviewed by the U.S. Supreme...
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OSHA Healthcare Connection, Issue 42, October 19, 2010
Should vaccine manufacturers be protected from lawsuits due to side-effect complaints? Take our...
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OSHA Healthcare Connection, Issue 41, October 12, 2010
Washing our hands with soap and water has always been the most effective way to avoid infectious...
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OSHA Healthcare Connection, Issue 41, October 12, 2010
Endoscopes are challenging to clean and disinfect. In fact, they are among the most difficult...
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Hospital Safety Insider, Issue 34, September 2, 2010
Joint Commission compliance and survey success depend on effective management of the care...
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OSHA Healthcare Connection, Issue 32, August 10, 2010
The American Hospital Association submitted a comment to OSHA recommending that the agency not...
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OSHA Healthcare Connection, Issue 32, August 10, 2010
There has been much more attention recently on multidose vials, particularly the expiration date of...
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OSHA Healthcare Connection, Issue 32, August 10, 2010
Does your facility use positive displacement needleless connectors? This week’s poll...
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OSHA Healthcare Connection, Issue 31, August 3, 2010
Q: How often do you need a chest x-ray if you test positive to TB? A staff physician believes he...
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OSHA Healthcare Connection, Issue 29, July 20, 2010
How soon in advance to spike IV bags is a contentious topic among healthcare professionals.
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OSHA Healthcare Connection, Issue 28, July 13, 2010
A Missouri VA hospital is being scrutinized for potentially exposing 1,800 veterans to diseases...
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OSHA Healthcare Connection, Issue 28, July 13, 2010
The saying "more isn’t always better" is true in the case of detergents and...
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OSHA Healthcare Connection, Issue 28, July 13, 2010
In the last few years, Lakeview Medical Center in northwest Wisconsin and BJC Healthcare in St...
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OSHA Healthcare Connection, Issue 27, July 6, 2010
At its annual meeting, the American Medical Association recently announced plans to conduct formal...
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OSHA Healthcare Connection, Issue 24, June 15, 2010
In case regulatory agencies like your state health department or CMS don't keep you up at night...
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Hospital Safety Insider, Issue 46, November 11, 2009
Three infectious disease professional associations have written to President Obama, asking him to...
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Hospital Safety Insider, Issue 44, October 28, 2009
Join Steve MacArthur, safety consultant for The Greeley Company, as he offers advice and best...
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Hospital Safety Insider, Issue 43, October 21, 2009
As we first reported last week on our Twitter account and in Mac’s Safety Space, the Centers...
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Hospital Safety Center, Issue 10, October 1, 2009
Ultraviolet-C light, when pointed straight down into a surgical site for infection control...
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Hospital Safety Insider, Issue 40, September 30, 2009
Opposition continues in New York state to a mandatory order that all hospital workers with direct...
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Hospital Safety Insider, Issue 37, September 9, 2009
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has put healthcare workers who have contact with...
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Hospital Safety Insider, Issue 33, August 12, 2009
Controversy is swirling this month around protection measures for healthcare workers from the H1N1...
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Hospital Safety Insider, Issue 27, July 1, 2009
Based on discussions with industry groups, The Joint Commission plans to focus more closely on all...
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Hospital Safety Insider, Issue 25, June 17, 2009
Epidemiologists who first promoted respirator use for the current flu pandemic now say it is not...
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Emergency Management Alert, Issue 19, May 12, 2009
Health officials in San Diego Count y have begun the preparation for a potential resurgence of the...
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Hospital Safety Insider, Issue 15, April 15, 2009
A pediatric physician-in-training who inadvertently saw young patients at three Chicago area...
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Hospital Safety Insider, Issue 14, April 8, 2009
For those of you involved with emergency planning for potential biological weapons and agents, the...
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Hospital Safety Insider, Issue 14, April 8, 2009
Join Steve MacArthur, safety consultant for The Greeley Company, as he offers advice and best...
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Hospital Safety Insider, Issue 12, March 26, 2009
Last week, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) issued a press release warning healthcare...
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Hospital Safety Insider, Issue 11, March 18, 2009
Join Steve MacArthur, safety consultant for The Greeley Company, as he offers advice and best...
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Hospital Safety Insider, Issue 10, March 11, 2009
Many of you involved with emergency preparation are familiar with the idea of identifying critical...
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Hospital Safety Center, Issue 3, March 1, 2009
Although bloodborne pathogens violations continue to be the top employee safety issue in general...
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Hospital Safety Insider, Issue 3, January 21, 2009
Last week’s plane crash into the Hudson River in New York City provided a call to action to...
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OSHA Healthcare Connection, Issue 3, January 20, 2009
A study by the CDC has pinned unsafe injection practices on 33 outbreaks of hepatitis in U.S...
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Hospital Safety Center, Issue 12, December 1, 2008
You should pay attention to an important upcoming deadline, as a rule mandating that hospitals run...
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Hospital Safety Insider, Issue 48, November 19, 2008
Safety committees may want to discuss a new guideline from the Centers for Disease Control and...
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Emergency Management Alert, Issue 44, November 18, 2008
Forget water, just add air.
That’s the new procedure for the inflatable mobile...
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Hospital Safety Center, Issue 8, August 1, 2008
A new British study suggests that antibacterial wipes can actually spread "superbug"...
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Hospital Safety Center, Issue 5, May 1, 2008
Below are some infection control survey tips that tie into EC concerns or have similar implications...
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Hospital Safety Center, Issue 3, March 1, 2008
Mandated protection from Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA, pronounced MER-sah...
