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Keeping track of work-related musculoskeletal disorders (MSDs) would be a new priority under a proposed record-keeping rule, evidence of a new direction for the U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration.
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The collective sigh of relief was almost audible at the approach of the one-year anniversary of the start of the pandemic of novel H1N1 influenza. Hospitals had dodged a bullet.
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At most hospitals, Employee Health runs a lean operation with minimal support staff. As H1N1 influenza cases surged and patients filled the emergency departments, employee health departments struggled to cope with their own tsunami of work:
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The processor used to disinfect endoscopes was a closed system. The sterilant was a safer alternative to glutaraldehyde. So why were employees complaining of headaches, eye irritation, shortness of breath and a reduction in their sense of smell?
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The National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health offers the following advice for reducing the risk of exposure to sterilants:
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Harry Geller, MBA, administrator of Othello (WA) Community Hospital, lies down to sleep, a smile on his face as he begins to dream about a sure-fire way to solve patient-handling dilemmas. Moments later, he turns into Superman, flying down the hall and running into a patient room to help staff before they're injured. But on his third feat, Geller faces a "heavy" patient and tumbles to the floor.
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In the nation's biggest tobacco-producing state, no one can smoke or use tobacco on any campus of its 125 acute care hospitals or that of many of its psychiatric hospitals.
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Smokers need not apply. That is the new policy of Memorial Health Care System in Chattanooga, TN.
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In a ruling that has risk managers and attorneys across the country watching for repercussions, the Supreme Court of Washington state recently ruled that requiring a certificate of merit for a medical malpractice case is unconstitutional.
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Risk managers who take a good look at their organization's psychiatric treatment may find reason to worry, because the risk mitigation that works in other areas might not be as effective in this field.
