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	RESPONSIBILITIES OF THE SAFETY COMMITTEE: The Safety Committee and its members, jointly and separately, shall meet and make every reasonable, enlightened effort to identify risks to patients, visitors and employees, determine their acuity and priority and work toward their abatement. The Safety Committee shall inform itself of standards for safety incorporated in the American National Standards Institute ANSI; General Acute Care Hospital Regulation of the State Department of Health; Code of Federal Regulations Title 29; Occupational Safety and Health Act OSHA; plus the minimum consensus...
Second excerpt:
	...evaluate employee performance. Stimulate and promote employee interest and participation in the Facility's Safety Management Program. Eliminate all unsafe conditions and unsafe acts within the department. Safe Work Rules: Individual departments, with the assistance of the Safety Committee, will establish and publish safe work rules, which reduce accident probability. Development of these rules should involve: A review of all work methods and practices; A review of all past accident...