Total Health and Safety for Health Care Facilities
A New Approach to Help Resolve Dangerous Misconceptions
Many health care facilities operate under the mistaken belief that compliance with industry accreditation guidelines ensures compliance with federal safety, health, and environmental standards set by OSHA, EPA and other regulatory agencies. Health care clinicians and executives tend to focus on patient care and believe their compliance with accreditation organizations and federal (CMS, HIPAA, FDA) administrative regulations means their facility possesses a solid health and safety program. These are misconceptions that contribute to an environment where health care workers suffer a rate of illness and injury far higher than most private industries.
This comprehensive book demonstrates how a total worker health and safety program can help meet regulatory and compliance requirements and simultaneously improve the quality of patient care. Readers will learn strategies and tactics that will stop the above-average risk of health care workers incurring a work-related injury or illness, and they will better understand the organizational and business performance improvements that will result.
Total Health and Safety for Health Care Facilities can help identify the true costs and liabilities of poor health and safety performance and provide methods to measure and consolidate the responsibility for employee health and safety.
A Complete Guide for Employee Safety and Health
Total Health and Safety for Health Care Facilities provides detailed guidance for establishing and managing a cohesive program to reduce employee injuries and illnesses. It is an essential guide for meeting safety and health requirements and introduces programs that complement existing patient safety and risk management programs. It serves as both an information source for beginners and a reference for experienced health and safety professionals. Each chapter provides a discussion of who should be involved in decisions, approaches for solving problems, solutions, examples of things facilities have successfully tried, and a section covering Joint Commission standards. The book also contains 17 tables and 68 figures that serve to clarify information and a CD-ROM with supplemental information.
Help in following JCAHO Standards
This book provides health care professionals with help in following federal, state, and local requirements to improve employee health care and safety. It shows how Joint Commission standards and OSHA requirements work in concert on topics such as workplace ergonomics, bloodborne pathogen control, workplace violence prevention, emergency management, personal protective equipment, hazardous materials management, and life safety. It presents a solid road map that ensures institutional compliance and offers the assurance that following the recommendations in each chapter will free management from the worry of unannounced regulatory inspections and accreditation surveys.
Instructions to Measure Financial Payback
Total Health and Safety for Health Care Facilities demonstrates how the quality of patient care can be positively affected by the health and safety of employees. No other health and safety book brings together this mix of human values, data collection, and problem solving to prove a business case that quality patient care requires quality employee care. It presents data that show how prevention of employee injuries, illnesses, and accidents yields improvements in employee performance and patient care.
The book presents clear guidance on data collection and problem solving that can save a facility significant direct and indirect expenses. It explains how to create a facility culture that improves employee communications and morale, and enhances local community relationships. The book shows how to effectively convey health and safety data to health care management in understandable, positive, and successful ways. It provides direction on how to communicate programs in terms of how they relate to patient care and how corrective action will enhance the facility’s ability to provide quality patient care and care for its employees, while improving economic performance.
CD-ROM With 800+ Documents
Full text copies of federal and state government agency standards, recommendations, guidelines, and other information referred to in the book are provided on a supplemental CD-ROM. The CD-ROM contains more than 800 documents that are searchable by keyword or phrase and identified by book chapter. There are documents from OSHA state plans, information from US agencies and organizations such as the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH), the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), and academic institutions. There are also selected documents from New Zealand, Canada, Switzerland, and the World Health Organization (WHO). Although most of the information is presented in English, there are 65 documents presented in Spanish, such as selected OSHA standards for Puerto Rico and selected NIOSH documents. The CD-ROM will save the time and expense of collecting information and allows quick access current information and forms that helpful for developing and implementing a comprehensive health and safety program.
Unique CD-ROM Features
Key features of the book include:
- A model Environmental Health and Safety (EH&S) program.
- Guidance for staffing the EH&S department.
- The relationship between employee health and safety and patient safety and health.
- Information on how the Joint Commission partners in ensuring employee health and safety.
- Personal health and fitness and its relationship to workplace safety and health.
- Marketing and positioning the EH&S department within the facility and community.
- Establishing a culture and climate of employee health and safety.
- Accurate data collection methods and surveillance.
- Tools for hazard and data analysis and record keeping that reduce injuries and illnesses.
- Guidelines, regulations, tips, and other resources.
- A process for ensuring continuous compliance with both OSHA (and other federal, state, and local) regulations and Joint Commission worker health and safety accreditation requirements.
Primary Audiences:
Health care facility administrators
Safety and health professionals
Safety committee members
Department managers
Occupational health nurses
Physicians
First receivers
Health and fitness professionals
Staff educators
HR professionals
Risk managers
Employee health managers
Accreditation coordinators
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About the Author
Linda Chaff is President of Chaff & Co. She has written more than a dozen books published by the National Safety Council, the American Medical Association, and the American Hospital Association that address aspects of health and safety in the health care field. She has served on the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s (FEMA) national committee for health care emergency preparedness and has participated in AHA’s videoconference, Confronting the Risk: Hazardous Materials and Hospital Liability. Her credits include the Russell L. Colling Literary Award and appointments on committee and board positions with safety and civic councils, including the executive committee of National Safety Council’s Health Care Section.
Total Health and Safety for Health
Care Facilities
AHA Order Number: 181400
$160 (AHA members: $120)
2006, approx. 450 pages, softcover, 7” x 10”
ISBN 1-55648-331-7
ISBN: 978-1-55648-331-8
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