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Articles Tagged With: OSHA

  • CDC: PPE Should be Readily Available for Workers

    New draft patient isolation guidelines recently approved by advisors to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention emphasized that healthcare workers have N95 respirators, masks, eye protection, and other personal protective equipment readily available.

  • As OSHA Violence Regulation Stalls, States Move to Protect Healthcare Workers

    After more than a decade of urgent calls for federal labor officials to adopt a standard to prevent violence against healthcare workers, 600 determined nurses came to the massive, dome-capped Texas State Capitol in Austin in February 2023. The bipartisan bill that the TNA and the Texas Hospital Association jointly lobbied for was passed into law effective Sept. 1, 2023. Under the conditions of the legislation, healthcare facilities have until Sept 1, 2024, to enact the key provisions.

  • Violence Continues as Some Question Need for OSHA Regulation

    The reams of research, news reports, and first-hand accounts continue to accumulate, revealing rampant danger in healthcare that grew worse during the pandemic. Yet there remains resistance to an OSHA standard, with few denying there is a problem while others argue a regulation would be duplicative of recommendations that are not working.

  • Violence Continues to Threaten Hospital Workers and Patients

    Hospitals and other healthcare facilities struggle daily with the threat of violence from patients and visitors, requiring more effort to identify potentially violent people and take steps to prevent injury.

  • EDs Face OSHA Citations for Failing to Prevent Violence

    OSHA cited a Texas hospital for failing to adequately protect employees from violence, after a patient assaulted a security officer who lost consciousness and was subsequently hospitalized. The agency noted the hospital had not created policies and procedures to protect employees from assault by patients who had exhibited violent behavior.

  • Emergency Departments Inundated with Crowding, ‘Boarding,’ Violence

    Amid an epidemic of violence, America’s EDs have become overwhelmed by long waits and “boarding,” a haphazard way station for the lost: psychiatric patients, walking wounded, those arriving by emergency transport, and those who deferred treatment during the pandemic, all awaiting an inpatient bed or a transfer. The American College of Emergency Physicians and many other co-signing medical groups described the problem in a letter to President Biden.

  • AOHP Researchers Track Down Needlestick Hazards

    Following an alert from an occupational health manager at a U.S. hospital, researchers with the Association of Occupational Health Professionals in Healthcare found a longstanding sharps injury problem with prefilled syringes that were designed as safety devices.

  • Meet Lynda Enos: The Occupational Health Master

    Lynda Enos is a Certified Professional Ergonomist and an occupational health expert. Hospital Employee Heath spoke with Enos between her many speaking engagements and consulting work.

  • OSHA Draft COVID-19 Rule in Healthcare Expected Soon

    As this report was filed, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) had finalized the COVID-19 draft standard to protect healthcare workers and submitted it to the White House. On Dec. 8, 2022, OSHA sent the standard to the Office of Management and Budget, with a decision on its fate expected sometime in early 2023.

  • CMS Threatens Citations for Workplace Safety Violations

    CMS recently put hospitals on notice about potential penalties regarding workplace safety with a recent memorandum to state survey agency directors. The memorandum focuses on workplace violence.