What's New in Infection Control/OSHA Compliance

Core Competency Credit Course

Saturday, October 6, 2012

Are you maintaining the healthiest and safest work environment possible for your patients and employees?

Discover how you can improve the health and safety of your dental practice environment by spending a day with Dr. Harold Edelman, an infection control consultant with 32 years of practice experience. You will be brought up to date on the “hottest issues” in infection control today—hand hygiene practices, vaccinations, post-exposure protocols, safety-engineered sharps devices, instrument processing…and more. You will leave this program knowing how to practically apply the most current CDC infection control guidelines and OSHA directives to the real-world practice of dentistry. This targeted continuing dental education course will also satisfy OSHA’s annual training requirements and the Minnesota Board of Dentistry core competency requirement in infection control.

Benefits/Objectives

During this continuing dental education program, the entire dental team will benefit from learning how to:

• ensure compliance with national and state OSHA and infection control standards and guidelines.
• protect yourself, patients and employees from disease transmission.
• prevent and manage accidental exposures to bloodborne pathogens
• maintain a healthy work place through recommended immunizations/vaccines.
• select and use the most effective products to disinfect environmental surfaces.
• maintain instruments for asepsis and employee safety.

Who Should Attend

Dentists and dental team members who want to make sure their current safety and infection control practices are up to date and effective.

Educational Methods

Illustrated lectures and discussion.

Harold E. Edelman, D.D.S., Occupational Safety and Health Consultant, Professional Compliance Group. Dr. Edelman graduated from NYU Dental School and maintained an active dental practice for 32 years. He has provided infection control consulting services/programs for 18 years to over 800 dental offices and has been involved in over 70 OSHA inspections of dental offices. Dr. Edelman is certified by the Occupational Safety and Health Administration to teach “Voluntary Compliance in the Private Sector” and “Biohazards.” He is an active consultant member of the Organization for Safety and Aseptic Procedure (OSAP), the national dental infection control organization and lectures extensively on the topics of OSHA compliance and infection control at national, regional and local dental meetings.

Comments from dental health professionals who have attended one of Dr. Edelman’s programs:

“Finally—a speaker that knows how to cut to the chase—tell me what’s new and leave the rest.” Dr. Gil Sokal

“This is simply one of the best, most clinically relevant infection control courses I have ever taken…period!" Dr. Steve Grossman

“Excellent! Best infection control course that I’ve ever been to and I’ve been to a lot of them. Thank you." Joann, RDH