By James L. Curtis and Craig B. Simonsen

shutterstock_58920859OSHA has released an “Inspection Guidance for Inpatient Healthcare Settings,” that will focus its inspectors attention to musculoskeletal disorders, workplace violence, bloodborne pathogens, tuberculosis, and slips, trips, and falls.

The Guidance focuses on hazards that were included in OSHA’s recently-concluded National Emphasis Program on Nursing and Residential Care Facilities, CPL
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By Mark A. Lies II

Tuberculosis is once again raising its proverbial head — now this disease may require employer responses under several state and federal laws!

According to the Centers for Disease Control, over one third of the world’s population (nearly 2 billion people) have tuberculosis!  New infections occur at the rate of one per second and approximately

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