Hospital Employee Health 2014-03-01

OSHA to hospitals: Do the right thing by making worker safety a priority

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.

'Road map' gives path for SPH success

You bought lift equipment, trained your staff and added new patient mobility assessments. Yet your injuries continue. What gives?

CDC: Test workers for HBV immunity

A growing number of health care workers are coming into their profession with childhood vaccination against hepatitis B virus (HBV).

OSHA extends comment period on recordkeeping

Slips, falls likely to rise, older HCWs at greater risk

Older workers are generally safer workers, but there is one risk that rises steadily with age: slips, trips and falls.

In nursing, does violence 'come with the job'?

Every day, nurses face a barrage of threats, insults and assaults from patients or visitors, yet almost half never report verbal or physical assaults.

Putting employees in front of Employee Health

Hospital Employee Health – March 1, 2014

March 1, 2014