A networking opportunity: Computer use in the EHS
If your employee health service is equipped with a computer, what software program(s) do you use? Do you find it adequate for your needs? For what specific tasks do you use it? Do you use it just to record data, or do you manage data as well?
Are you connected to an on-line service? If so, have you found any specific information sites to be especially useful? How does having a computer help you do your job? Do you think computerization is essential to the EHS today?
If your EHS is not computerized, we want to hear from you, too. Have you tried to obtain a computer, but with no luck? Or, are there other reasons for your department's lack of computerization?
Please share your computer experiences for an upcoming article. Send a brief letter to: Editor, Hospital Employee Health, P.O. Box 740056, Atlanta, GA 30374. We will call you for a short interview, so be sure to include your phone number. Please respond right away. *
Back Safety in the Health Care Setting is an 18-minute videotape designed to train health care workers on back safety techniques that will save them from painful injuries. Information includes lift preparation techniques, principles of proper lifting, major patient lifts, and devices for transferring or moving patients. Purchase price is $225. A two-week rental costs $65, and a three-day trainer's preview costs $10. VHS and 34-inch formats are available. Contact Cinecraft Health & Safety Systems, 2515 Franklin Blvd., Cleveland, OH 44113. Telephone: (800) 959-2463. Fax: (216) 781-1067.
The Progressive Analysis System is a comprehensive ergonomic evaluation and worksite analysis program designed to train managers, supervisors, and employees in how to identify, understand, and control risk factors. Developed by ergonomics and safety experts, the program offers four levels that can be used individually or as a series. Levels include: musculoskeletal signal risk factor survey, workplace ergonomics profile, comprehensive ergonomics safety program, and total system for ergonomic evaluation. The first two levels are complimentary; levels three and four are priced separately. Training programs include videotapes, participants' handbook, instructors' guide, quizzes, and handout materials. Contact Ergodyne, 1410 Energy Park Drive, Suite 1, St. Paul, MN 55108. Telephone: (800) 225-8238.
Americans With Disabilities Act Enforcement Guidance: Preemployment Disability-Related Questions and Medical Examinations is the final version of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission's (EEOC) enforcement guidance document. In a question-and-answer format, the document addresses issues frequently raised by employers and EEOC investigators. Contact the EEOC Publications Distribution Center. Telephone: (800) 669-3362. It also is available on the World Wide Web page of the Society for Human Resource Management at: http:/www.shrm.org.
The Latex Allergy Information Service provides a list of manufacturers of non-latex gloves. Those include: Maxxim Med (Sensicare gloves), (800) 727-7340; SmartCare (Tactyl gloves), (800) 822-8956; Johnson & Johnson (Allergard gloves), (800) 526-3967; Ansell (Dermaprene gloves), (800) 327-8659; Hermal (Elastryn gloves), (800) 352-7896; Best Manufacturing (N-Dex gloves), (800) 241-0323. For a subscription to Latex Allergy News, which contains news, resources, product lists, and a directory of support groups for latex-allergic health care workers, contact Debra Adkins at the Latex Allergy Information Service, 176 Roosevelt Ave., Torrington, CT 06790. Telephone: (860) 482-6869. Fax: (860) 482-7640. CompuServe: 76500,1452.
GeoHealth Web, an international multidisciplinary World Wide Web site offering health care information and networking for health care professionals, educators, consumers, and business people, has been established on the Internet. Some 80% of the national pharmacy and health care associations in the United States and Canada are represented. The address is: http://geohealthweb.com. Users pay no fee to register for the service. For more information, contact Renato Cataldo Jr., PharmD, director of microcomputer applications and associate professor of pharmacy administration, National Center for Computer Education and Research in Healthcare, St. Louis College of Pharmacy, 4588 Parkview Place, St. Louis, MO 63110. Telephone: (314) 367-8700. E-mail: [email protected].
"Ready to Quit Smoking?" is a new stop-smoking brochure available free from the American Academy of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery. It contains information about helping with the physical and mental side effects of quitting, starting the cessation process, breaking nicotine addiction, and tips to break the smoking habit. Send a self-addressed, stamped business-sized envelope to: "Quit Smoking," AAO-HNS, 1 Prince St., Alexandria, VA 22314. *
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