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Know Your Risks: Prevent an OSHA Citation and Protect Your Bottom Line

This program highlights the common hazards in nursing and personal care facilities, including ergonomics stressors, slips and falls, bloodborne pathogens, tuberculosis, workplace violence, and more. It provides guidance on personal protective equipment, hazard communication, emergency action planning, and the new GHS. Learn how to prevent OSHA citations and protect your bottom line.

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Know Your Risks: Prevent an OSHA Citation and Protect Your Bottom Line

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  1. Michelle Dunham Hilarie Warren Dan Ortiz Pete Kriengsiri Georgia Tech OSHA Consultation Program Know Your Risks: Prevent an OSHA Citation and Protect Your Bottom Line

  2. NEP Highlights • DART Rate ≥ 10.0 (old) and 5.3 (new) • Ergonomics Stressors from Resident Handling • Slips, Trips, and Falls • Bloodborne Pathogens • Tuberculosis • Workplace Violence

  3. Other Common Hazards • Personal protective equipment • Respirators • Hazard Communication and the new GHS • Emergency Action Planning

  4. FY2010-2011 SIC 805 (Nursing and Personal Care Facilities; Federal Data)

  5. How Does the NEP Work? • Focused primarily on the highlighted list • If other hazards are identified, the scope of the inspection can be expanded. • Using the DART cut-off rate of 10.0 narrowed the pool of eligible facilities to ~700. • For FY13, the rate was lowered to 5.3 (~800 facilities)

  6. OSHA 300 Log Case Study Example • Resident spit in face • Hit in face/chest • Pain in arm • Pain in the elbow • Medication squirted in eye • Stuck in forehead with fork • Urine splashed in mouth • Cut hand during dressing change • Steam burn in dietary • Privacy Concern Case • Lt. knee sprain and pain in hip from fall on spilled substance on floor • Back pain/strain after resident care • Burn to Rt. middle finger from stove • Contusion to Lt. leg from cart • Broken Rt. arm radial head from fall while cleaning showers • Bite to Rt. forearm from resident during transport

  7. New Recordkeeping Decision Logic

  8. A True Cost: $afety Pays

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