Hospital Employee Health – July 1, 2008
July 1, 2008
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Numbers unmasked: OSHA formula for pandemic respirator stockpiles
For the first time, newly proposed guidance puts a number and a cost to the respirators needed to protect health care workers during an influenza pandemic: 480 respirators at a cost of about $240 to protect a single employee, or a single reusable elastomeric respirator with three filters at a cost of $40 per employee. -
Could HCWs breathe easier with new respirators?
If you could give health care workers the ideal respirator, what would it look like? For the first time, an interagency task force is considering that question in a project they hope will result in a more effective, less cumbersome respirator perhaps one that doesn't require fit-testing. -
Rubber meets the road: The push for latex safety
It has been 10 years since Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore created a latex task force to address the growing numbers of latex-sensitive employees. -
Key to safety: Creating a culture of safety
Are your employees too busy to be safe? Too stuck in their old way of doing things to use new safety equipment? -
CDC proposes pandemic antiviral guidelines
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is requesting comments on its proposed guidance on antiviral prophylaxis during an influenza pandemic.