Yes a huge nexus between employee health, employee safety, and patient safety and health. JC produced a book on this in 2012: https://www.jointcommission.org/assets/1/18/TJC-ImprovingPatientAndWorkerSafety-Monograph.pdf and ACOEM held a summit on this at its HQ in February.  Many clearly documented area in infectious diseases, patient lifting, smoking, and more documentation and research needed to elevate this to level we currently hold patient safety. Warner

 

 

T. Warner Hudson, MD FACOEM, FAAFP

Medical Director, Occupational and Employee Health

UCLA Health System and Campus

Office 310.825.9146

Fax 310.206.4585

Pager 800.233.7231  ID 27132

E-mail twhudson@mednet.ucla.edu

Website www.ohs.uclahealth.org

 

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Subject: [MCOH-EH] Employee health and patient wellbeing

 

Besides immunizations and direct threats from employee illness, and maybe drug use, and shootings by disgruntled employees or ex-employees,do people think about the relationships between employee health and patient well being? .

 

One example is that if an injured worker goes immediately off the job there will be at least a short term shortage of staff, with staffing levels perhaps already being tight. There might also be a morale problem for remaining workers depending on how their colleague got hurt and what the response was. Also, workers might avoid situations in which there is an increase in perceived risk.  And no doubt other effects.

 

How are these effects taken into account?



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