Health care workers
OSHA (Occupational Safety and Health Administration)
What is the government agency that protects health care workers?
DHCP
What is the term currently used to describe dental assistants?
OSHA poster
What poster has to be hung in all work facilities?
Employee protection by "OSHA"
What is the government agency that creates a standard called the blood-borne pathogen?
5
How many federal agencies are there?
NIOSH (National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health)
What is the government agency that is responsible for conducting research and marks recommendations for the prevention of work-related injury and illness?
Exposure control plan
What is he process of creating procedures that will reduce employees' potential for exposure to diseases?
List of of hazardous materials, hazardous chemicals, safety data sheets, & labeling of containers
What should the hazardous communication plan include?
Training regulations by "OSHA"
What government agency says all employers must be trained annually?
By giving specific information and training, using labels and signs that identify hazards
Informing employees about biohazards occurs in two general ways: what are they?
University professors, researchers, manufacturers, distributors, consultants, and others interested in infection control.
The Organization for Safety, Asepsis, and Prevention (OSAP) is a not-for-profit professional organization composed of dentists, hygienists, assistants, and who else?
Bloodborne Pathogens
What refers to diseases that are transmitted by contact with infected blood?
Information on labeling hazardous substances, and regulates waste and sharps
What does the standard contain?
Exposure control plan
What has to be followed to minimize employee exposure to blood and OPIM?
Patient to dental team, dental team to patient, patient to patient, dental office to community, dental team to family, community to patient
What are pathways for cross-contamination?
3 Years
An annual training record must be kept on file by the employer and must be made available to OSHA upon request. The record must remain on file for how long?
Aides
A dentist cannot deny anyone's care due to a disability. This would include?
Annually
When should regulations be updated?
Blood borne pathogen standard
What is the most important law to follow?
Their social security number.
Medical records for each employee covered under the standard are to include: Employee’s name, Hepatitis B vaccination status (including documentation if they denied the vaccine), reports documenting occupational exposure, and what else?
Transmission-based precautions
For patients with highly infectious diseases that are easily spread through skin contact, airborne, or droplet routes, standard precautions may not be sufficient and are supplemented with what?
Engineering controls
What refers to equipment and other devices that remove or isolate hazards, materials, and devices that prevent employee exposure to hazards, and the best ways to prevent transmission of blood-borne pathogens?
#3165
What is the poster number that has to be hung up?
occupational exposure
What is defined as any reasonably anticipated skin, eye, mucus membrane, or parenteral contact with blood?
Virulence x Dose / Body Resistance
What is the equation used to identify the health or disease of an individual?