Your safety program forces your focus in many directions. Â How do you keep multiple projects moving forward to successful and compliant completion?
The Hospital Safety Director s Handbook, Fourth Edition, by safety expert Steven A. MacArthur, breaks down complex concepts into usable information. It provides sample tools, policies, and checklists that reflect recent changes in the field. It offers more than just minimal information it will help you build and maintain a successful and compliant safety program at your hospital.
With The Hospital Safety Director's Handbook, Fourth Edition, you have the ideal training resource and quick reference guide for safety directors. It covers all the duties they face daily, including those related to risk management, building and budgeting for a safety program, and staff education and training. This book and CD-ROM set also covers core Joint Commission related responsibilities such as management of the physical environment, emergency management, life safety, security, medical equipment, and more.
This easy-to-use reference guide and cover-to-cover training resource will help you:
- Understand the 2009 standards changes, including emphasis on life safety and emergency management
- Prepare for surveyors' questions about your safety program
- Learn from the real-world challenges faced by your peers in the field
- Grasp topic-driven analysis of all safety-related concepts
- Deal with safety-related staff competency requirements that used to belong to HR
- Improve communication and training on safety topics for hospital staff, including safety-related staff competency requirements from The Joint Commission
- Focus on current hot spots, including 96-hour rule, emergency preparedness, recent Sentinel Event Alerts, and more
- Integrate building safety and patient safety, including relevant National Patient Safety Goals
- Use risk assessment as a core measure of planning, growth, and continuity of operations
- Know the safety director's role during construction and renovation projects
- Comply with Interim Life Safety Measures
- Implement better risk assessment processes
- Easily find related organization resources
Check out the table of contents
- An overview: The Hospital Safety professional
- Managing risks in healthcare
- Setting up and organizing your program
- Budgeting for safety
- Creating a safety manual
- Safety and security management
- Hazardous materials and wastes
- Preparing for and responding to emergencies (including utility systems capabilities)
- Life and fire safety management (including ILSMs)
- Medical equipment and utilities
- Performance improvement (including effective organization and management of your EOC Committee)
- Education and training
- Final recommendations
Take a proactive approach and be prepared for trouble spots before they happen.
Not a basic compliance manual, this popular handbook offers a scalable walk-through of a hospital s safety program from soup to nuts it will help new and experienced safety professionals take a proactive approach to their safety programs, as well as deal with problems as they arise. Order your copy today.