Expert OSHA Compliance Services to Safeguard Your Workplace
At Health Management Solutions, we recognize the paramount importance of staying updated with evolving regulations in the healthcare industry. We offer comprehensive continuing education courses on HIPAA and OSHA to cater to this essential need. Furthermore, we aim to ensure that all professionals under our guidance are well-informed and well-prepared to navigate the complex landscape of healthcare regulations.
Continuing Education Courses and Required Annual Staff Training
OSHA Continuing Education Course
OSHA is pivotal in ensuring workplace safety, particularly in the healthcare sector. The regulations set by OSHA are crucial for the well-being of healthcare professionals and patients. Our OSHA course is meticulously designed to provide participants with a thorough understanding of their legal responsibilities under OSHA guidelines.
Course Highlights:
- Comprehensive insights into OSHA’s regulatory framework and its relevance in healthcare.
- Discussion on the legal implications for non-compliance with OSHA.
- Hands-on exercises to familiarize participants with real-world scenarios and challenges.
- The goal is to ensure licensees fully grasp their responsibilities and the repercussions of non-compliance.
Let Health Management Solutions Inc. improve your practice's OSHA Compliance Efforts
- The Occupational Safety and Health administration (OSHA)
was created within the Department of Labor, and is
responsible for worker safety and health protection. - Under the OSHA law, employers are responsible for providing
a safe and healthful workplace for their workers. - Employers MUST provide their workers with a workplace that
does not have serious hazards and must follow all OSHA safety
and health standards.
Failure to comply with any of OSHA's requirements could result in severe
violations, the violation categories are as follows:
- Other than a serious violation- Violation has a direct relationship to job safety and health but probably would not cause death or serious physical harm - up to $7,000 per violation. A proposed penalty of up to $1,000 for each violation is discretionary.
- Serious Violation - A violation where there is substantial probability that death or serious physical harm could result and that the employer knew or should have known of the hazard. A mandatory penalty of $1,500 to $7,000 per violation.
- Willful Violation - The employer is found to have been cited for the same violation in the past three years.
- Repeat Violation- Employer intentionally and knowingly commits a
violation and makes no reasonable effort to correct it. REPEAT
VIOLATIONS CAN BRING A FINE OF UP TO $70,000 FOR EACH SUCH. - Failure to Abate - Employer failed to
correct a violation from an original citation. Failure to correct prior violation may bring penalty of up to $7,000 for each day the violation continues beyond the prescribed abatement date.
✓ Additional violations for which citations.
✓ and proposed penalties may be issued upon conviction. - Criminal- Willful or repeated hazard that results in the death of an employee.
Up to $250,000 or even $500,000. - Falsifying records - $10,000 or 6 months in jail or both.
Violations of posting requirements can bring a civil penalty of up to
$7,000.
If you have an Existing Practice:
✓ a Compliance Inspection is recommended every five 5 years, to make a thorough evaluation of the practice's compliance level and areas that need to be
addressed.
HMS's COMPLIANCE INSPECTION, is comprised of the following:
• A documented 12 page detailed analysis of all of:
➤ OSHA, HIPAA and Board of Dentistry and CDC's requirements; > A Written Narrative Report with an explanation on these requirements and areas of deficiencies;
> A Corrective Action Plan with the Financial Description.
Appropriateness of OSHA Staff Training
Companies, Healthcare Facilities, Medical and Dental practices that rely solely on videos for their OSHA staff training, which includes the blood borne pathogen program may not be in compliance with the standards according to ruling, 29 CFR 1910.1030 (g)(2)(v11)(n); the employee must have the opportunity to ask questions and receive answers from a trainer. “Appropriateness of the Usage of video presentation in meeting the OSHA blood borne training Requirements” OSHA interpretation, August 28th., 1996″
OSHA Staff Training
GOALS: TO DISCUSSED THE REQUIRED ANNUAL EDUCATIONAL TRAINING FOR OSHA – 29 Chapter Fl. Registry 1910.1030 “Occupational Exposure to Blood-borne Pathogens”; and HRS-Chapter 64E-16 Florida Administrative Code–“Biomedical Waste”.
OBJECTIVES: To have licensees understand their legal responsibilities for failure to comply with these regulating organizations; understand their differences, and goals and objectives, and have the dentists formulate a Corrective Action Plan for their respective practices, to attain the highest level of compliance.
To have licensees comprehend that they will attain a higher level of Risk Management Control by being in compliance; and that by being in compliance not only will they prevent risk factors with these regulating agencies, but compliance will protect them from other potential risk situations non-related to these organizations (actual cases will be presented – the
names of the dentist and patients will be with-held).
Purpose and Requirements of OSHA 29 Chapter Fl
Purpose and Requirements and Standards of OSHA’s Regulations; Materials Necessary for Compliance; Definitions and Responsibilities; General Compliance Requirements;
Epidemiology of blood-borne diseases;
CDC recommendations; Asepsis and sterilization techniques in the Dental Office; Record-Keeping and documentation Requirements; Rights, Common Violations, Citation and Penalties Infection Control Process and Procedures;
Universal Precautions;
Exposure Determination; Blood-borne Diseases Pathogen Standards; HIV/AIDS, Confidentiality of test & Med. Records; Personal Protective Equipment; HBV, Vaccination Requirements; Engineering Controls;
Osha Compliance Documentation
OSHA COMPLIANCE MANNUAL – Includes compliance protocols and procedures with the following requirements:
- Blood-Borne Pathogen Standard, Policies and Procedures
New Globally Harmonized System of Classification, Policies and Procedures. - TB Infection Control Requirements, Policies and Procedures.
- Ergonomic Recommendations, Policies and Procedures.
- Violence in the Workforce Policies and Procedures.
- Florida Board of Dentistry’s Rules and Regulations regarding Infection Control.
- Biomedical Waste Regulations, Policies and Operating Plan according to Chapter 64E-16 Florida Administrative Code.
Hms Description Of Services And Pricing Structure
It takes an initial appointment of approximately 2 to 3 hours, depending on the size of the practice., the second appt. about 30-45 minutes, we will deliver and explain the Detailed and Narrative reports along with the Corrective Action Plan. (2 appointment included for this service, total time spent in the office 4 hrs.; preparation of the reports require 2 hours). Total number of hours spent for a thorough Inspection Service, 6 hrs.
Staff Training
OSHA (Prices varies depending on the size of the practice, number of employees and number of practices) (Required
time, first OSHA Staff Training 1.5 to 2 hrs.; subsequent years 1 hours, as long as There are no significant staff changes)
Included in price is the initial in-service explanation of the book, the Employees’ Job Descriptions, designed to help the practice with the implementation process, and a follow up appointment of about 1 hr., to review the practice’s implementation of the documentation requirements. The second appointment must be scheduled within 3 month of book delivery. After 3 months, if the practice wants an additional in-service appointment, in addition to the 2 appointments associated with the book, to assist them with the implementation process, there will be an additional cost, for one hour Administrative in-service training.
CONCLUSION
This concludes a basic explanation of the federal and state
Mandated
Requirements; which every healthcare
Professional, must address in their practice in order to meet the
Basic rules to comply with osha
requirements. • however, there are additional federal requirements,
such as hipaa, worksman compensation and human resource's recommendations and requirements for which a dental practice could potentially be liable, covered under different presentations.
requirements. • however, there are additional federal requirements,
such as hipaa, worksman compensation and human resource's recommendations and requirements for which a dental practice could potentially be liable, covered under different presentations.