The National Fire Protection Agency’s newly-released active shooter guidance gives 21 characteristics of facilities that officials should include in any building risk assessment checklist.

Follow this checklist to help you through the process. Please note that, though health and safety law applies to all businesses, micro businesses with fewer than five employees don’t need to write ...

The Center for Health Design has a free tool to help guide you through the process. The Safety Risk Assessment (SRA) toolkit, funded through a multiyear grant from the Agency for Healthcare ...

Effective occupational health and safety management requires a structured approach to hazard identification and risk assessment, which is best achieved by a management system. The implementation ...

I’m a small employer, and someone recently told me down the pub that I have to do health and safety risk assessments for my employees. This is news to me! What should I do? Regardless of the size of ...

The implementation of surgical safety checklists (SSCs) at a tertiary care hospital was associated with a reduced risk of death within ... and the patients' other health conditions.

The hospitals were asked what they were using: a 19-item checklist from World Health Organization issued in 2008, a similar but longer 26-item list from the Canadian Patient Safety Institute ...

Research by Community Care has shown that many English councils do not have risk assessments designed specifically for social care staff. Paul Durkin offers advice The duty to carry out health and ...