Unclear on Joint Commission lead apron inspection requirements? Our blog post decodes the expectations and helps ensure your facility stays compliant.

Choosing the right lead apron is crucial for healthcare professionals. This guide explores leading brands, styles, and materials to help you find the perfect fit.

This recognition highlights RCS’s rapid growth and commitment to revolutionizing lead apron management in the healthcare industry.

Regularly implementing a lead apron inspection checklist, including visual, palpation, and radiographic checks, is crucial for ensuring optimal patient and staff safety by identifying potential damage before it compromises protection.

Lead aprons in medical settings typically last 3-10 years, depending on type and usage frequency. Regular inspections and proper care, including annual X-ray scans, help ensure safety and longevity, while disposal should be handled as hazardous waste to mitigate environmental impact.

Visual and palpation tests are insufficient for ensuring lead garment integrity due to their inability to detect microscopic imperfections. Annual X-ray scanning is crucial to identify hidden damage, ensuring staff safety and preventing legal and financial liabilities associated with inadequate radiation protection measures.

How can you tell that your apron needs repairs or even replacement? Some signs of wear and tear are obvious, while others are not. We’ll go over the five most common signs of lead apron wear and tear we see, along with related details and tips, plus recommendations for repairs or replacement.

Proper maintenance of lead aprons will extend their lifespan, saving you money on replacements, as well as keep patients and staff safer. Learn the do’s and don’ts.

Keeping track of your lead apron inventory can become a low priority, even if doing so protects you from HAI’s. Here are five ways to improve lead apron management for staff safety, compliance, and cost savings.

With numerous styles, weights, thicknesses, and brands available, choosing the right X-ray garment can be overwhelming. Our extensive experience in cleaning and repairing over a million X-ray garments provides us with firsthand knowledge of the best types and uses in the medical field.

Do you clean your lead aprons properly with both regular wipe-downs and quarterly deep cleaning and sanitization? If not, you could be putting staff and patients at risk.

Hospital wipes and sprays may leave harmful biofilm behind, increasing the risk of infections for staff and patients. While wipes can be used daily between deep cleans, they should not be the only cleaning method.