Mary Ellen McCandless, Facility Executive
The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has updated instructions for conducting inspections and issuing citations related to worker exposures to tuberculosis in health care settings.

Mike Hrickiewicz, Health Facilities Management
Welcome to our triennial salary survey of health facilities operations and construction professionals, conducted in cooperation with the American Society for Healthcare Engineering (ASHE) and the Association for the Healthcare Environment (AHE).

Robin Daugherty, Healthcare Facilities Today
When patients and medical staff tested positive for Ebola in several cities across United States last fall, the health care industry realized that all departments within a hospital or other facility have at least some sort of contributing part in managing and mitigating an outbreak situation, not just the medical staff.

Megan Headley, FacilityCare
Health care facilities have focused on fall prevention for some time, but it remains a significant problem, and one with which health care facilities of all types continue to struggle.

NRG Business, Health Facilities Management
Whether your energy conservation program consists of retrofitting existing facilities or investing in renewable energy resources, you will need to estimate, measure and verify your results.

Debra Levin, Healthcare Design magazine
I recently attended a meeting of the Built Environment Network (BEN), a group of senior-level facility executives from around the U.S. and Canada who are dedicated to improving safety, quality, and sustainability in health care.

Beth Burmahl, Hospitals & Health Networks
Compensation for environmental services managers rose 8 percent on average between 2012 and 2015, the most of any category in a survey conducted by H&HN sister publication Health Facilities Management.

Jane Rohde, AIA, FIIDA, ACHA, AAHID, LEED AP, Interiors and Sources
I think everyone in the health care industry would like to have a crystal ball – one that allows us to clearly see the future of an industry that is rapidly changing and uncertain.

CleanLink
Long awaited industry guidance on legionellosis is now available in a new standard from ASHRAE. The document establishes minimum legionellosis risk management requirements for building water systems.

Infection Control Today
Ten years ago, in 2005, the countries of the world came together to put a new framework into place that would better prepare the world for public health emergencies. Nearly 70 percent of the world’s countries are unprepared to effectively detect, assess, report and respond to potential public health threats.

Infection Control Today
Infections with one of the most troublesome and least understood antibiotic-resistant "superbugs" are increasing at alarming rates, particularly in health care settings.

Karin Lillis, Infection Control Today
Researchers in Ireland confirm that health care workers' compliance with hand hygiene guidelines largely relies on workplace culture – from peer and supervisory attitude toward proper protocol and practice to accessibility of necessary supplies like soap and water, and alcohol-based handrubs.

Infection Control Today
The International Consortium for Prevention & Infection Control (ICPIC) held its biannual meeting in Geneva, Switzerland, June 16-19, 2015.

Max Green, Becker’s Infection Control & Clinical Quality
Infection preventionists, hospital staff and clinicians search high and low for weak spots in hospital-setting disinfection and cleanliness, but may need to focus more on what's in their own pockets, according to new research.

Shannon Barnet, Becker’s Infection Control & Clinical Quality
Disinfecting rooms with pulsed xenon ultraviolet light was linked to a reduction in intensive care unit-acquired Clostridium difficile infections in a recent study published in the American Journal of Infection Control.

American Society for Microbiology
Metal alloys containing copper can destroy human norovirus, according to a paper published online ahead of print on May 15, in Applied and Environmental Microbiology, a journal of the American Society for Microbiology.

Brian Rashid, Forbes
Mike Bloomberg’s salary for his third term as Mayor of New York City was a whopping $1 per year. One dollar. One single dollar bill. He may have even given it away. If that is true, he was the Mayor of the largest city in the U.S., for free.

Chad Perry, LinkedIn Pulse
Early in my career, I had an encounter with a senior leader that left such a vivid impression on me that I can still remember it like it was yesterday. It was our first meeting as manager-employee. We were less than five minutes into our conversation when he abruptly and sharply interrupted, "Wait, is your chair higher than mine?"

Patricia Sellers, Fortune
Gen Y values authenticity, transparency and access to power. And most of all, Millennials want employers to provide a sense of purpose.

July 20 - September 30
What can Lean do for you and your organization? Learn how to use Lean to eliminate waste in Environmental Services processes, and to drive continuous quality improvement and employee job satisfaction. This self-directed, interactive online course will use case studies and exercises to lay the foundation for creating a Lean health care organization through the application of Lean tools and concepts such as value stream mapping, 5S, mistake proofing, and more.

Continuing Professional Education Credits:
At the end of this course you will receive five (5) continuing professional education (CPE) credits towards your CHESP renewal.

Free for AHE members!

The new brochure includes tons of information on the new program, its benefits, the Train the Trainer Program, educational highlights, and eligibility requirements. To access and download the PDF, click ‘learn more’ below.

AHE has launched Express, a new mobile learning platform that offers educational podcasts delivered by environmental services and infection prevention thought leaders. You asked for a learning opportunities that required less of a time commitment and we delivered!

Current Express offerings include this three-part series, check it out:

The Infection Prevention to Environmental Services Experience
• Part I, Building Clinical Relationships
• Part II, Current Trends in Disinfectants
• Part III, Components of Effective Cleaning and Disinfection Programs