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  • No OSHA citations for hospitals on ergo

    Enforcement related to ergonomic hazards remains light more than two years after the U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) trained inspectors to recognize and document those hazards. More than 1,000 inspections of nursing homes generated only 10 citations related to ergonomics. They were among only 16 employers nationwide who received such citations.
  • Slow flu start helps the vaccine effort

    In a bad-news year for influenza vaccination, public health authorities are glad for some good tidings: The flu season began slowly and the vaccine promised to be more effective than last years mismatched version.
  • CMS to approve hand-rub dispensers in hallways

    Hospitals soon will get a green light from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) to install dispensers of alcohol-based hand rubs in hallways. Last year, the National Fire Protection Association (NFPA) amended its 2000 and 2003 Life Safety Code to allow the convenient use of dispensers and set criteria for their installation, but CMS rules still prohibited the use.
  • Hospital finds wellness is an EH way of life

    An employee comes to employee health with blood pressure thats out of control. Another has diabetes and isnt good at managing her diet. Another has a headache from a sinus infection. Is that your problem?
  • Getting unstuck: Hospital finds safe zone in the OR

    Never let up. That is what Greenville (SC) Hospital System learned about reducing sharps injuries in the operating room. It takes a sustained effort to keep rates down.
  • Readers Write

    Following the death of a Virginia hospital nurse from tuberculosis, an article in The Virginian-Pilot (Simpson E, Hardy K. Aug. 1, 2004) raised questions regarding the nurses case. Specifically, how could her illness have gone undetected in a hospital, and should anything be changed to keep such cases from occurring again?
  • Reducing Hispanic on-job death rate

    The Department of Labor hopes to reduce the number of foreign-born Latino workers who die or are injured while working in the United States.
  • Safety management certification offered

    Occupational health nurses who spend a large part of their workday dealing with safety activities soon can be certified in safety management, to demonstrate competence in the field of safety and promote career development for certified occupational health nurses in an expanded role.
  • Information gatekeepers: Occ-health nurses must ensure employee privacy

    If you provide medical services at a companys on-site clinic or occupational health office, you know the balancing act organizing charts so they contain what they should but dont contain more than is necessary; having information readily available to those permitted access to it, but making sure privacy laws are observed.
  • Should flu vaccine be forced on workers?

    The severe nationwide shortage of killed flu vaccine has put a stop, at least temporarily, to initiatives in some places that would force health care workers to be vaccinated or risk their jobs, but some health care experts warn that the solution advocated by at least one state that health care workers forego the vaccine entirely so that more is available for higher-risk groups could be dangerous to the very people it aims to protect.