Hospital Employee Health
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No excuses for failing to get influenza vaccine
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Bioterrorism Watch Supplement
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Will your employees be willing to take the smallpox vaccine?
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OSHA delays new MSD record keeping — again
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Prevent fines, needlesticks: Our experts will tell you how
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Should you screen all new employees for HCV?
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New directors for CDC, NIOSH bring EH touch
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Bring a culture of health to health care
The quest to reduce both injuries and medical costs is leading hospitals to turn their health-driven mission toward their own employees. -
HAIs a high priority: Joint Commission gives infection prevention its own web portal 'We have both carrots and sticks.'
In yet another sign that infection control is becoming a national priority across a wide range of accreditors, regulators and state and federal agencies, the Joint Commission has created a new web portal to combine its full array of initiatives to prevent health care associated infections (HAIs). -
Labs urged to boost worker safety measures
For weeks, 25-year-old Richard Din worked long hours in the lab, hoping for a research breakthrough. At the VA Medical Center in San Francisco, he was a research laboratory associate on a project to develop a vaccine against Neisseria meningitides serogroup B. But instead of saving lives, Din became a victim of the deadly organism.