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Hospital Resorts To Cameras To Ensure Employees Wash Hands
onehitwonder writes "Long Island's North Shore University Hospital is using sensors and video cameras to make sure employees wash their hands, according to an article in today's New York Times. Motion sensors detect when hospital staff enter an intensive care unit, and the sensors trigger a video camera. Feeds from the video camera are transmitted to India, where workers there check to make sure staff are washing their hands. The NYT article notes that hospital workers wash their hands as little as 30 percent of the time that they interact with patients. The Big Brother like system is intended to reduce transmission of infections as well as the costs associated with treating them."
Probably 20 years ago they werent expected to use hand sanitizers, but now they are.
In the environment that I work (a casino), there is frequent contact with chips, cards, and money that have been handled by large numbers of people over short periods of time so illnesses frequently spread. Of course its recommended that dealers and floor/pit men regularly use hand sanitizers throughout their shift, but if you've ever tried to regularly used hand sanitizer then you would know that you cant regularly used hand sanitizer without fucking up the skin on your hands.
"His name was James Damore."
Well, that's great, apart from the fact that I can find only one source of that story (and a huge amount of forums linking to the same story).
I'll google it for you. Not even the Daily Mail has a story with that headline.
I get this kind of shit emailed to me every day from colleagues. I've debunked every single email that I get, and have now set up a rule that deletes any email from certain people that are sent to the office.
The one this morning that I heard about was "Nigel Farrage's - Tory party's worst nightmare". If the man has such great policies, why do his supporters need to attribute thirteen year old diatribes to him?