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Safety and Health in Mining:Part 1

open access: yesOccupational Health Southern Africa, 2017
Elgstrand, Kaj   +12 more
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Health IT for Patient Safety and Improving the Safety of Health IT

2016
Alongside their benefits health IT applications can pose new risks to patient safety. Problems with IT have been linked to many different types of clinical errors including prescribing and administration of medications; as well as wrong-patient, wrong-site errors, and delays in procedures.
Farah, Magrabi   +2 more
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Health and safety

Emergency Nurse, 2012
The Health and Safety Executive's (HSE) cost-recovery scheme, Fee for Intervention, explains how organisations that break health and safety laws are liable for recovery of the HSE's costs, including those for inspections and taking enforcement actions. Organisations that comply with their legal obligations pay nothing.
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Occupational Safety and Health

NEW SOLUTIONS: A Journal of Environmental and Occupational Health Policy, 2003
The 2002 elections put worker health and safety in a deep hole. The administration's core strategy on safety and health wraps vague, moderate rhetoric around hard-right policies which cater to the most anti-worker factions of the business community.
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Health and Safety in Hospitals

Medicine, Science and the Law, 1979
This article comprises a survey of non-surgical accidents to patients, staff and visitors. It is based on empirical data of the nature and extent of the accident problems, which are contained in 6 tables and 1 bar chart. The potential liability at law for the type of accidents occurring is discussed throughout as is the currently topical position of ...
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Health and safety records

British Journal of Nursing, 2006
Records relating to health and safety risk assessments are vital in informing staff of inherent risks and securing the safety of colleagues, patients and the general public. In addition, since many of the statutory duties in health and safety laws must be complied with ‘as far as is reasonably practicable’ often the only way in which the employer can ...
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Health and safety in the NHS

British Journal of Nursing, 1999
With the increase in the number of employer liability claims there is a need for all healthcare organizations to demonstrate that they can meet the requirements of NHS health and safety issues (HSG(97)6). The NHS is the second biggest employer in Europe and is currently paying out in excess of £30 million on employer liability cases. Health and safety
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Occupational Safety and Health

The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, 1979
Work accidents became a matter of societal concern in the Progressive era of Woodrow Wilson. When other contingencies of modern life were brought under social security in the New Deal reforms of the 1930s, work accident legislation remained separate. One possible reason was that work accidents can be controlled within industrial and chance limits.
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Health and safety in the NHS

British Journal of Nursing, 2014
Accidents at work cost the NHS some billion pounds every year. Over half of these accidents are due to avoidable slips and falls—the most common cause of claim for compensation faced by the NHS. Under the Management of Health and Safety at Work Regulations 1999, the NHS as an employer and nurses as employees have a legal obligation to manage health ...
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Occupational Safety and Health

The American Journal of Nursing, 1975
D H, Goldstein, J N, Benoit
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