Job Safety Analysis (Human& Equipment)

A Study on Performance and Safety Tests of Defibrillator Equipment

Introduction: Nowadays, more than 10,000 different types of medical devices can be found in hospitals. This way, medical electrical equipment is being employed in a wide variety of fields in medical sciences with different physiological effects and measurements. Hospitals and medical centers must ensure that their critical medical devices are safe, accurate, reliable and operational at the requ...

A Study on Performance and Safety Tests of Electrosurgical Equipment

Introduction: Modern medicine employs a wide variety of instruments with different physiological effects and measurements. Periodic verifications are routinely used in legal metrology for industrial measuring instruments. The correct operation of electrosurgical generators is essential to ensure patient’s safety and management of the risks associated with the use of high and low frequency ele...

Personal protective equipment. Fall-arrest equipment--what price safety?

Evaluating Critical Safety and Health Risks by Job Safety Analysis and Analytic Hierarchy Process in Industrial Printing

Background: Critical risks are one of the most important problems in industries, which have high costs for the industry. This study aimed to assess critical safety and health risks through job safety analysis and analytic hierarchy process in industrial printing. Materials and Methods: The present study was conducted as a descriptive and analytical in one of the printing industries in Iran, in...

Metrics for equipment-related patient safety.

Larry Fennigkoh is a professor of biomedical engineering at Milwaukee School of Engineering. E-mail: fennigko@ msoe.edu There is no question that the most effective way to respond to a question is with a set of relevant facts. Facts are generally irrefutable; colloquially we say, “The facts speak for themselves.” A database is nothing more than a convenient vehicle for collecting, organizing, a...