Scheduling Your Required OSHA Yearly Training

From time to time, we hear stories in our nation where dental offices are potentially shut down because of an event that has happened regarding the potential spread of viruses. It is vital that a dental office schedule and complete yearly blood born pathogen training or also known as OSHA training. Many offices dread the endeavor, but it is really quite easy and painless (yes, even for the dentist).

In my experience, many dental offices fail to complete this requirement for some of the reasons below:

• Unawareness of the yearly OSHA training requirement

• Practicing for years without it and haven’t had any issues

• Busy office and forgets to schedule the yearly training

However, an event or an OSHA inspector will not favor any of the aforementioned reasons. It’s important that dental offices implement yearly OSHA training because it:

• refreshes the office team members of best practices for safety

• protects your patients and team from blood born pathogens

• trains any new team members you may have added

• identifies any problem areas in the office and offers safeguards to protect the office

• complies with the OSHA mandated yearly training requirement

There are some dental offices that will wait for a specialist to hire a speaker and attend the event at an off site location. While that may satisfy the OSHA requirement, it will typically take up a Friday. In addition, I see that when offices attend an event like that, they rarely implement anything they learn which makes it counterproductive other than gaining the CEU’s.

I would like to offer a more effective and efficient strategy for your dental office. As our customers know, Atlanta Dental Supply trains our dental advisors so that we can offer the OSHA training for the dental office. In our 2 hour training (most of the time over an extended lunch), we will provide:

• a thorough on-site dental office review so that we can identify the areas that are non-compliant.

• a review of your OSHA manual (if you have one) to check for mandated items such as a written exposure control plan, hazard communication plan. employee records and training documents.

• the availability of CEU’s for those that may want them.

• an easy to understand presentation that focuses on the areas of your office that may need the most attention.

• a friendly environment to discuss any issues and help the office exceed and maintain it’s OSHA protocols.

If you would like to set up your yearly OSHA required training, you can contact me by clicking on the button below. Yearly HIPAA training is not required. However, if you would like HIPAA training as well, we can provide for your office.