2025 Classes

The healthcare industry is facing unprecedented economic pressure and expected to be defined by continued efforts to contain rising costs of care while maximizing efficiency amid heightened demand from an aging population.  This panel will focus on the key business trends driving change and how they will affect the Healthcare Safety Professional.

In this session, attendees will listen to strategies from a panel to promote a positive safety culture across diverse environments, including first responders in the community, employees in the workplace, and insurance safety consultants.  The session will focus on fostering collaboration between these groups to create a unified approach to safety, emphasizing the importance of communication, training, and leadership in building a culture that prioritizes safety.  Best practices will be shared, highlighting the role of proactive risk management, continuous education, and the integration of safety protocols to protect both workers and the community.

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Healthcare organizations are facing unprecedented economic challenges.  The rising costs of workplace injuries have a significant financial impact on the bottom line.  Leveraging injury trends and costs to focus program efforts and gain funding for mitigation strategies can add credibility to requests for funding increasing the likelihood of CSuite support for safety programs.  The presenters will discuss healthcare industry injury trends and associated costs.

Rounding for safety is a practice in healthcare that involves multiple people assessing a patient or environment to improve patient safety and care.  It is a tool to improve patient and staff engagement in safety promotion and can help identify issues such as obstructed walking paths, missing fire equipment, etc.  It may also be a collaborative assessment of a patient’s safety by the patient, family and bedside nurse.  This type of rounding can help idenfity gaps and challenges and encourages a proactive approach to harm events and may be a way for leaders to understand the quality and safety of patient care that can help build trusting relationships and create situational awareness.

Workplace Violence continues to be a growing risk for Healthcare Workers.  Performing a Workplace Violence Risk Assessment is foundational to all prevention and mitigation strategies.  The speaker will share proven assessment techniques and best practices in workplace violence prevention.

This session will consist of a review of healthcare workplace violence issues and trends with recommendations on improving data collection and risk prediction.

Workplace Violence in healthcare is a complex issue that requires a systematic and collaborative approach.  This panel discussion brings several healthcare systems and MIOSHA together to illuminate the challenges, opportunities and share best practices in addressing the increasing trends in WPV.

Using proper ergonomic assessment techniques and devices, prevention of acute and chronic strains and sprains are possible.  Utilizing OSHA First Aid, whether with a stretch and flex program, onsite training or hiring practices aimed at hiring capable employees, there are multiple ways to decrease work comp spend, injury rate and loss time.

The Michigan Safety Conference Healthcare Division, the Michigan Healthcare Safety Association (MHCSA), the Michigan Health & Hospital Association, and MIOSHA are collaborating to enhance employee safety in healthcare and minimize the risk of worker injuries.  In this forum, representatives from each organization will discuss the advantages of their partnership and how their missions align.  There will be time for Q & A, networking, and sharing best practices, challenges, and support needs.

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