Oil and gas operations have well-established health and safety frameworks, but VR takes safety from theory to immersive ...

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has for the first time revealed key facts about its shorter survey option for select, “higher quality” nursing homes, including how many state survey ...

This chapter describes recent efforts by the chemical and petroleum industries to define process safety metrics suited to the needs of their enterprises. It then discusses how such concepts can be ...

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 of an ...

We have identified four ways to increase efficiency without sacrificing survey quality. The Social Security Act mandates that all nursing homes participating in the Medicare program—currently more ...

The introduction of process safety system–specific malware into the manufacturing world in 2017 intensified the discussion around the convergence of safety and cybersecurity. If a cyberattack could ...

ISA defines an alarm as an audible or visible means of indicating to the operator an equipment malfunction, process deviation, or abnormal condition requiring a timely response. A safety alarm is ...

If you’re running a quality building — strong staffing ratios, engaged leadership, residents thriving — you know the frustration. One abuse scandal three states away, and suddenly your census takes a ...

In June 2022, the AICPA’s Auditing Standards Board (ASB) and Accounting and Review Services Committee (ARSC) issued interrelated final standards on quality management intended to clarify and improve ...