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J
ennifer Pennock is AORN's senior manager of government
affairs, though lately a better title for her might be senior
manager of smoke evacuation legislation efforts. There's
lots of excitement around smoke evacuation legislation,
and rightly so, and Ms. Pennock is right in the thick of the
advocacy efforts, lobbying state legislators and other policymakers for
mandatory smoke-free OR laws and educating them about the dan-
gers of exposure to surgical smoke.
With new laws in Rhode Island and Colorado requiring hospitals and
Dan O'Connor | Editor-in-Chief
Surgical Smoke:
A Blueprint for Legislative Success
Two states now protect OR workers from surgical smoke.
Could yours be next?
• ALL CLEAR Rhode Island (2018), Colorado (2019) and Oregon (2020) are the first 3 states to pass mandatory smoke evacua-
tion laws.