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Look beyond the lift to prevent ergonomic injuries. Stress, working conditions, and other psychosocial factors play a role as well, recent research shows.
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More than 30 years after first creating a standard on ionizing radiation, the U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) wants to determine if the rule needs an update. The review was prompted by the growth in potential exposures to ionizing radiation with new medical uses and increased prevalence of security screening devices, OSHA said.
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Needle safety continues to be a top concern of employee health professionals, according to a member survey by the Association of Occupational Health Professionals (AOHP), based in Wexford, PA.
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An impending visit by surveyors from the Joint Commission improved hand hygiene compliance rates, which remained higher than baseline even after the inspection, an epidemiologist reports.
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Federal counterterrorism officials are warning about a disturbing pattern of incidents in which people tried to gain access to hospitals by posing as surveyors from the Joint Commission.
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If you have doctors or nurses who still complain about awkward sharps safety devices, take a look at new technologies. Theres good news: Manufacturers have responded to concerns by producing safety devices that are more user-friendly, more effective, and integrate patient safety.
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Just as the Center for Medicaid & Medicare Services (CMS) granted hospitals new latitude to place alcohol-based hand rub containers in hallways, new fire concerns emerged that could restrict the use of alcohol-based surgical preparations in the operating room.
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If terrorists spread pneumonic plague in your community, will surgical masks be sufficient to protect health care workers? That question has renewed a controversy over respiratory protection, this time whether surgical masks are appropriate for some diseases while fit-tested N95 filtering facepiece respirators are required for others.
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Here are excerpts of the Centers for Disease Control and Preventions (CDC) disease-specific guidance on whether health care workers should use surgical masks or respirators.
