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Healthcare reform items for safety committees to review
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June 1, 2010
As the initial waves of the newly-passed healthcare reform law begin to ripple out, safety committee members should consider how the changes could affect EC and occupational health concerns.
“To the extent you believe the healthcare reform law will increase the demand for services, it could certainly have the effect in the near term of straining the resources of hospitals … [and] that would affect [managers] who area overseeing the safety and health of employees,” says Bradford Hammock, partner at Jackson Lewis, LLP, a law firm in Reston, VA, where he heads the workplace safety compliance practice group.
According to experts and industry observers we talked to, the following three reform-related areas may be worth adding to your next safety committee meeting agenda:
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