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NAOSH Week serves as an important reminder of the significance of workplace safety and health and offers an opportunity for employers, employees, and safety professionals to come together to promote these values. Before NAOSH Week, ASSP holds a children's "safety-on-the-job" poster contest to teach children about the significance of workplace ...
"The theme for the very first World Patient Safety Day was ‘Patient Safety: A Global Health Priority’. To promote open communication for learning from errors and to emphasize the importance of everyone's voice in prioritizing patient safety, the slogan was 'Speak up for patient safety!'." [14]
Emergency medical services (EMS) Week, or EMS Week, was originally authorized by President Gerald Ford on November 4, 1974 for the week of November 3–10. [1] Since 1992, EMS Week has moved to the third week of May. [2] In 2024, the 50th annual celebration for EMS Week is scheduled for the week of May 19-25, and the theme is "Honoring Our Past.
He has been criticised for suggesting COVID-19 deaths have been over-counted, [3] repeating false claims about the use of ivermectin as a COVID-19 treatment, and providing misleading commentary about the safety of COVID-19 vaccines. [4] As of March 2024, his YouTube channel had 3 million subscribers and over 750 million views.
The Institute for Safe Medication Practices (ISMP) is an American 501(c)(3) organization focusing on the prevention of medication errors and promoting safe medication practices. [1] It is affiliated with ECRI. [2]
As a result, patient safety has emerged as a distinct healthcare discipline, supported by an immature yet developing scientific framework. There is a significant transdisciplinary body of theoretical and research literature that informs the science of patient safety, [3] with mobile health apps becoming an increasingly important area of study. [4]
National Safety Month (NSM) is an annual month-long observance in the United States each June. Official Badge of National Safety Month 2018. During National Safety Month, individuals and organizations participate by making efforts to reduce the leading causes of unintentional injury and death at work, [1] on the road, [2] and in homes and communities.
The Committee on Safety of Medicines (CSM) was an independent advisory committee that advised the UK Licensing Authority on the quality, efficacy, and safety of medicines. Following the thalidomide tragedy of 1957 to 1961, in 1963 the government asked Sir Derrick Dunlop to set up a committee to investigate the control and introduction of new ...