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Studies have associated workplace exposures to hazardous drugs with health effects such as skin rashes and adverse reproductive events (including infertility, spontaneous abortions, or congenital malformations) and possibly leukemia and other cancers.
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The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) announced an initiative to emphasize hazard communication, an area that already is a routine part of inspections. Every inspection even those focused on a specific complaint includes a review of hazard communication and record keeping.
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A phlebotomist developed active TB and 56 employees tested positive for latent TB infection after a highly infectious patient spent three weeks on general medical wards before being placed in a negative pressure room.
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Are you comfortable talking about return on investment? How about loss run analysis? Those business concepts may sound like someone elses job. But if you talk the language of the hospitals financial officers, you may win unprecedented support for your ergonomics program.
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Fit-testing is still on, but the timing may be off. Hospitals may take as long as a year to implement their annual fit-testing of filtering facepiece respirators used for protection against tuberculosis.
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Hand hygiene may get a boost from more widespread use of alcohol-based hand rubs, as the National Fire Protection Association (NFPA) voted to permit dispensers in corridors of hospitals.
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There is a right way to put on and remove personal protective equipment (PPE). Now theres a step-by-step guide to teach health care workers how to do it.
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Immunize your health care workers against influenza every year, infection control officials are urging.
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Many nurses still do not have access to sharps safety devices, and conventional devices are available in most health care facilities, according to a survey conducted by Nursing2004.1
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