Hospital Employee Health – October 1, 2006
October 1, 2006
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Tackle the hardest task: Changing behavior to make safety a priority
Lift equipment sits unused in a closet. Safety needles are deposited in a sharps container without being activated. An employee fails to put on goggles when there's a risk of a body fluid splash. -
How to get employees to 'buy-in' to safety program
From TB skin tests and immunizations to use of safety devices, it's often a struggle to convince health care workers to comply with the rules and policies that are designed to keep them safe from harm. -
Hospital seeks to boost staff's safety awareness
When needlesticks began to level off at BJC Healthcare in St. Louis, it was time to jump-start the sharps safety program. Injuries occurred despite the health system's use of safety devices. -
Break the cycle of pain and MSDs in sonography
Standing in an awkward posture, reaching across a patient, pressing on a transducer, twisting to look at a monitor -- the daily tasks of sonographers put them at risk of musculoskeletal injury. -
Getting it right: How to improve record keeping
Underreporting injuries makes it more difficult to evaluate and correct hazards. But overreporting on the U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) log can inflate your incidence rate. -
Make the most of your occ health software
Suppose you want to know how many employees have gone 11 months or more since their last tuberculosis screening test. Can your software spit out that list? -
Journal Review: The burden of occ injury: As bad as diabetes
At an estimated cost of more than $120 billion, we spend five times as much on direct and indirect costs related to occupational injury and illness as we do on HIV/AIDS and three times more than the cost of Alzheimer's disease. -
Fit for duty: Lift team relieves nurses' backs
Patients are getting heavier and sicker, nurses are getting older, and hospitals are facing a nursing shortage. -
OSHA sets final respirator protection factors
The U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration finalized the assigned protection factors (APFs) for respirator protection programs.