Saturday, March 17, 2007

Dental Office Safety

The dental office safety program is mandated by OSHA as well as your state board of registration in dentistry. In most cases we at the dental office delegate this to an already overburdened auxiliary. Without realizing it, we may be putting our dental office in a precarious position by not being in full compliance due to the fact that certain of the items necessary for the program are not in place.

We at Dynamic Dental Safety believe in the AIM principle at the upper right. By this we mean that the dental office should do three steps on a regular basis to accomplish full compliance with OSHA, CDC and state guidelines:

  • ASSESS - review and evaluate the procedures in the dental office, both in terms of infection control and OSHA
  • IMPLEMENT - after a thorough review, put in place both in writing and action the necessary items in the dental office to comply with the mandates
  • MAINTAIN - consistently review the materials, governmental mandates and safer dental devices to stay current with the OSHA, CDC and your state regulations

This is a complex task for any one individual. At Dynamic Dental Safety, we have many easy to use materials that are cost effective to allow the dental office to come into full compliance with not only OSHA, but the CDC infection control guidelines and your state licensing board. Please contact us at blog@dynamicdentalsafety.com or (888) 669-8846 ext 701 for samples of or exciting and easy to use material for your dental office.