You bought lift equipment, trained your staff and added new patient mobility assessments. Yet your injuries continue. What gives?
Older workers are generally safer workers, but there is one risk that rises steadily with age: slips, trips and falls.
While there is no national standard requiring safe patient handling, the U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration is making an all-out appeal to hospitals to do the right thing and to recognize the potential cost-savings.
A growing number of health care workers are coming into their profession with childhood vaccination against hepatitis B virus (HBV).
It's not just about making people happy. It's about making people happy as a risk-management strategy.
