Course Description
This one-day comprehensive training is the perfect solution to help you keep your practice safe and 100% OSHA compliant!
Don’t Be a Statistic!
Over 4 million people each year suffer a workplace injury that could have easily been prevented. These injuries may not only cause severe damage to your employees and their families, but can also hit you and your organization hard financially.
Keep up to date on the most current OSHA rules, regulations, and updates covering medical and dental facilities:
As a medical or dental professional, you’re obviously concerned with OSHA compliance. Even though you do your best to comply with OSHA directives, you probably wonder if you’ve misinterpreted or missed a minor statute that inspectors will cite you for. In this program, you’ll learn what OSHA regulations apply to your facility and discover realistic ways to meet the mandates.
If you have even the slightest doubt if you’re 100% compliant, you can’t miss our comprehensive one-day workshop, The Medical & Dental Practice OSHA Compliance Course. Our workshop is designed specifically for the medical and dental fields and is the perfect solution to help you keep your practice safe and completely OSHA compliant.
Learn From a Certified OSHA Expert
Your workshop leader will not only be a certified expert in OSHA compliance and workplace safety issues, but also a dynamic speaker who will hold your interest and give you information in easy-to-understand terms. Your trainer’s real-world experience with OSHA means you’ll get effective solutions and strategies that work. You’ll learn crucial information that can literally save lives. You’ll also find out how to keep your organization’s bottom line safe from steep OSHA fines.
Here’s just a sample of what you’ll learn:
- Get up-to-the-minute information on the latest general industry changes in OSHA regulations and standards
- Boost your organization’s safety level by proactively eliminating workplace hazards
- Minimize your organization’s exposure to costly penalties and fines
- Reduce the time it takes to handle OSHA record keeping
- Be prepared for an OSHA site visit
- And much, much more!
We’re here to help you establish a safer, OSHA-compliant workplace. We’re also here to give you peace of mind. Sign up now for this one-day essential workshop that will protect your employees from accidents and serious injury and can save your organization hundreds of thousands of dollars down the line. Sign up for The Medical & Dental Practice OSHA Compliance Course workshop today!
Agenda
OSHA Requirements That Apply to
Medical and Dental Employers
- Hazard Communication (HAZCOM) Standard
- Understand and apply OSHA’s most recent
changes to the Hazard Communication Standard
- Ensure your Hazard Communication Plan is in
compliance
- Find out if you’re unintentionally violating your
staff’s OSHA-mandated rights
- Safety Data Sheets — the 16-section format you
MUST follow
- Labeling requirements under bloodborne
pathogens (BBP) and HAZCOM regulations
including pictograms, signal words, and
hazard statements
- Handling and treatment of hazardous materials
at health-care facilities: learn what OSHA
considers hazardous materials and requires
special handling
- Determine if the Laboratory Standard applies to
your practice, and how to comply with it
- How to prevent or reduce exposure to some of
the most frequently used chemicals in dental
and medical facilities
- Compressed gas, laser, and latex allergy — how
to deal with these hazards in the dental or
medical facility
- Bloodborne Pathogen Standard
- Discover the number one problem that results in
death or serious harm to health-care workers
and the frequently overlooked solution
- Identify critical components that must be
included in your Exposure Control Plan
- Does your Bloodborne Pathogens training meet
OSHA requirements?
- HIV/AIDS and Other Potentially Infectious
Materials: special treatment and considerations
for medical and dental employees
- How the Americans with Disabilities Act’s Direct
Threat Exception might impact who you hire
- Identify your annual requirements under the
Needlestick Act
- Labeling and color-coding requirements for
needle and sharps disposal boxes, waste
containers, contaminated laundry, and certain
specimens
- Needle and sharps containment and disposal
requirements
- Critical components regarding needles and
sharps that must be included in your written
Exposure Control Plan
- Identify housekeeping essentials for safely
dealing with contaminated sharps, laundry,
dental equipment, and medical waste
- Post-exposure incident follow-up and
procedures required by OSHA
- Evaluate your needlestick prevention and
recording policies — are they up to date?
- Required BBP elements you must include in
employee training (engineering controls, use of
universal precautions, exposure control plan,
documentation, work practice controls,
employer personal protective equipment (PPE)
responsibilities, exposure incident procedures,
record keeping, sharps injury logs, etc.)
- Medical and First-Aid Standard
- Determine if the medical and first-aid standard
impacts your facility and employees
- Best practices for developing and communicating
medical and first aid policies and procedures that
comply with OSHA requirements
- Ionizing Radiation Standard
- OSHA guidelines for radiation exposure control,
restricted areas, PRMs, room and equipment
labeling, and signage
- OSHA’s four standards medical and dental
facilities must comply with
- Exit Routes Standard
- Signage, lighting, mapping, markings, and
diagrams: Identify and appropriately label exit
routes as required by OSHA
- Electrical Standards
- Electrical safety and flammable gases — how this
impacts medical and dental facilities
- Specialized medical and dental equipment and
what electrical requirements and considerations
these bring
- Avoid a wiring deficiency and prevent one of the
most frequently cited hazards by OSHA
- Emergency Action Plan Standard
- Recognize and avoid the three problems OSHA
inspectors commonly find with health-care
Emergency Action Plans
- Develop and maintain an Emergency Action Plan
tailored for your work environment
- Fire Safety Standard
- Required elements of a Fire Prevention Plan for
medical and dental facilities
- Personal Protective Equipment (PPE)
- BBP and OPIM PPE requirements: What applies
to your medical or dental facility?
- Understand the difference between respirators
and surgical masks and respiratory protection
requirements for health-care workers
- Record Keeping and Reporting
- The health-care records OSHA requires hospitals
and nursing homes to keep — but not doctors or
dentist offices
- Sharps record-keeping and reporting guidelines
- How to log employee incidents and file reports
without a misstep
- Understand the health-care records OSHA
requires you to keep for at least 30 years
- Documentation requirements and guidelines —
follow these and limit your risk of exposure to an
OSHA citation
- Posting Requirements
- OSHA posters that must be posted at your facility
- Training Requirements
- Use OSHA’s seven-part training model
Other Safety and Health Hazards at
Medical and Dental Facilities
- Workplace Safety
- How to use a Job Safety Analysis to identify and
eliminate safety issues common to medical and
dental facilities
- Implement a safety program that encourages and
rewards changes in employee behavior and
results in a safer work environment
- How to avoid setting up a safety incentive
program that actually violates the law
- Ergonomic Hazards
- Discover new concepts in dental and medical
industry ergonomics, including four-handed
dentistry
- What OSHA has to say about ergonomics in the
medical and dental industries
- Workplace Violence
- How the General Duty clause applies to
workplace violence and employer responsibilities
- Words of wisdom from OSHA’s Guidelines for
Preventing Workplace Violence for Health Care & Social Service Workers
- Slips, Trips, and Falls
- A single accident at your facility could result in
fines, malpractice suits, and negative press. Learn
how to prevent the slips, trips, and falls that put
employees and customers at risk
- Learn what the legal pros tell their clients about
how to significantly reduce their liability from slip,
trip, and fall events
- Disease Control (Hepatitis B, Influenza, and
Tuberculosis)
- What vaccines are required, what’s not, and
employer responsibilities
OSHA Inspections and Legal Proceedings
- Find out what you need to know about OSHA's
evaluation, penalty, and fine-reduction systems
- Learn what increases the likelihood of an OSHA
inspection at your facility
- The OSHA inspection: what to expect, how to
prepare, and how to appropriately respond
Comments
Cancelation Policy: If you cannot attend an event, you may send someone else in your place. If that isn’t an option for you, cancellations received up to five working days before the event are refundable, minus a registration service charge ($10 for one-day events; $25 for multiple-day events). After that, cancellations are subject to the entire seminar fee, which you may apply toward a future seminar. Please note that if you don’t cancel and don’t attend, you are still responsible for payment.