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A group of anesthesiologists is warning that, in addition to the perennial problem of drugs being diverted for personal use or resale, some powerful drugs are stolen from hospitals to be used as murder weapons.
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A 58-year-old man presented to his local VA hospital with lower back pain and left leg pain. The decision was made to perform a laminectomy.
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Honest answer: Do employees consider you to be trustworthy?
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Most violations of Occupational Safety and Health Administration's respiratory protection standard are from wearing respirators without the required employee elements completed prior to use, says Mary Gene Ryan, BSN, MPH, RN, COHN-S/SM, FAAOHN, executive director of MGRyan & Co. Inc., a Ventura, CA-based occupational health and safety consulting firm.
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Is someone in your workplace claiming that occupational health programs are a waste of money and resources?
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Musculoskeletal injuries are a large driver of injuries here," reports Janice Hartgens, UPS's corporate occupational health manager. For this reason, she says, the company's Knee, Back and Shoulder Injury Prevention program gives workers specific ways to prevent these injuries.
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A driver stops his truck, pulls the key out of the ignition, steps out of the vehicle holding onto the handrail, uses a load stand to get closer to the top of the trailer, selects a package, and closes the door. If a UPS driver does all of this using safe practices, he or she is going to hear about it.
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The first step toward building a safety culture may be taking the "pulse" of the one you've already got. Do your employees believe that managers care about employee safety? Do they feel comfortable alerting managers to hazards? Do they use personal protective equipment when it's recommended?
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Hospitals should provide pertussis vaccines to their health care workers free of charge, but should still treat employees with antibiotics if they have unprotected exposure to patients with pertussis and work with patients at high risk, such as young infants, a federal vaccine advisory panel says.
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Fear that their health and medical information will be shared with others is usually the "biggest concern" that employees have," says Judy A. Garrett, health services manager at Syngenta Crop Protection in Greensboro, NC.
