Joint Commission Update Accreditation 360. Update 8 of 9
NPG #11: Creating a Secure and Safe Physical Environment A safe hospital is built out of small actions. A spill…
Safety
Safety Awareness for Environmental Services Part 4 of 4
Safety Awareness in EVS, Part 4 of 4: The Systems Behind the Incident Report I went deep into safety research…
Safety Awareness for Environmental Services Part 3 of 4
Safety Awareness in EVS, Part 3 of 4: When the Danger Is a Person, Not a Task I went deep…
Safety Awareness for Environmental Services 2 of 4
Safety Awareness in EVS, Part 2 of 4: What Gets On You, Under You, Around You I went deep into…
Safety Awareness Deep Dive Part 1 of 4
Safety Awareness in EVS, Part 1 of 4: The Needle You Never Saw Coming I went deep into safety research…
Safe & Sound Week Just Ended. The Hazards Have Not.
OSHA’s Safe & Sound Week ran August 10 to 16. It’s a voluntary campaign built on three things: management leadership, worker participation, and finding and fixing hazards before they find you. Participation is voluntary. The hazards it’s about are not.
Every EVS department has a version of the same list, and most of it has gone quiet. Overfilled trash and linen bags. Sharps disposed of improperly by clinical staff, not EVS. Cart wheels that have been bad for months. Chemical splash risk. Wet floors. Repetitive lifting. Workplace violence. None of these are secrets. They’re conditions a team sees so often that seeing them stops counting as noticing them.