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Hospitals with high injury rates or a high proportion of ergonomic injuries will receive targeted inspections in some regions of the country under a new enforcement program for ergonomics.
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First responders and law enforcement officers began receiving smallpox vaccines in some states, even while cardiac events associated with the vaccine continued to draw scrutiny.
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On March 24, Carol Tough, RN, had to make a decision between going to work and possibly risk getting a mysterious new disease, or quitting the career shed had for 17 years. She went to work.
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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta has recommended surveillance of health care workers who have contact with severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) patients or their environment of care.
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Many hospitals are failing to address the risk of workplace violence, even when state law requires prevention efforts, according to preliminary findings of a California-based study.
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If your ergonomics program focuses only on patient lifts, youre missing the greatest cause of patient-handling injuries, according to a recent study.
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What could have been done to prevent this accident? Thats a standard question posed after an employee suffers an injury. But at the 35 hospitals of the Palmetto Hospital Trust (PHT) in Columbia, SC, workers compensation self-insurance program, theres a new focus on finding the answer the root cause of serious accidents.
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Health care workers continue to have among the highest rates of work-related asthma, according to a recent report from the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH).
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A new rapid tuberculosis test promises to help reduce health care worker exposures through early identification of patients.