Manufacturing companies face a wide range of dangerous situations that can result in serious injury to employees and significant financial liability to the company. Because of this, comprehensive ...

Every day, an estimated five to 10 arc flash incidents occur and more than 2,000 people are hospitalized each year, according to The National Fire Protection Association (NFPA). With arc flash and ...

WASHINGTON — The US Food and Drug Administration and the US Occupational Safety and Health Administration have teamed up to the develop an employee health and food Safety checklist for food operations ...

Using a hospital safety checklist to reduce lethal bloodstream infections in hospital intensive-care units (ICUs) not only saves lives but also thousands of dollars, according to new Johns Hopkins ...

The World Health Organization encourages organizations to adapt the WHO Surgical Safety Checklist to their own needs (subject to certain requirements). To help organizations come up with their ideas ...

Patient safety checklists, long a mainstay in surgical operating rooms, still are inconsistently designed and unevenly applied among cardiac catheterization labs. Yet a paper published in the January ...

A review by Johns Hopkins researchers recently published in the journal Critical Care, says although it’s clear that use of aviation-like safety checklists based on scientific evidence can work and ...