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How to Paint a Masterpiece, Part 1 of 3
Painters use their brush to create a picture for the outside world. We do the same thing with the words we use. But painters generally work alone and don’t have to worry about stage fright. When we stand in front of an audience to speak, our nerves can interfere with our presentation. A little fear [...]
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I really liked seeing the personal safety while traveling advice. I recall watching a PBS NOVA special called “Escape! Because Accidents Happen!” series and the one on fire safety was quite compelling and informative. In it, Gary Briese, then Executive Director for the International Association of Fire Chiefs (www.iafc.org), gives the following several tips when [...]
What’s the Proper Role of the Safety Professional?
Sometimes, the member responses we get to articles are just as if not more valuable than the original story. Such is the case with Mark Hansen’s Sept. 10 article explaining basic accounting principles for safety professionals. A member named David Bogart responded to the story by suggesting that safety professionals stick to their own budgets [...]
Howard Florey
Howard Walter Florey was born on Sept. 24, 1898 in Australia. His father, Joseph, had left England to seek out a warmer climate for his tuberculosis-stricken wife. Unfortunately, she died of the disease and Joseph remarried. Howard was the couple’s third and final child.
Perhaps influenced by the death of his father’s first wife, Howard studied [...]
How to Develop a Lift Team, Part 2 of 2
In Part 1 of this series, I explained how using lift teams can help reduce ergonomic injuries in a healthcare facility. (The same is true in other kinds of facilities and many of the principles discussed in this story might apply outside the healthcare context.) But to get the best results, you need to build [...]
Sample Lift Team Survey
1. How many times per week are you called upon to perform a patient lift?
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2. How many times per week are you called upon to reposition or move a patient who is in a bed?
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3. How many times per week are you called upon to reposition or move a patient who is in a chair?
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4. [...]
