Infection Control

In accordance with CDC recommendations, Standard Precautions aim to protect dental healthcare personnel and prevent dental healthcare personnel from spreading infection among patients.

OSAP’s Dental Infection Control Boot Camp™ is a comprehensive training course led by experts and thought leaders in infection prevention and provides up to 24 hours of CE credit. The multi-day course will cover critical elements of Standard Precautions and other important topics of infection prevention and safety including:

Evidence-Based Product Evaluation–Surveillance and Breaches ...

We’ve come across a very important article that pertains to OSHA’s Hazard Communication Standard.  We urge you to read the article and share it with your colleagues.

In the article, by First Impressions Magazine, you will learn about classification, labeling, safety data sheets (SDS), and training for your practice.  The article includes illustrations such as a table of revised phase-in dates, a sample chemical label, and HSC pictograms.

According to the article, “Dental practice settings are required to comply with the directives ...

This document summarizes current infection prevention recommendations and includes a checklist that can be used to evaluate compliance. The information presented here is based primarily upon the previously published 2003 guideline (see below) and represents infection prevention expectations for safe care in dental settings.

The Summary includes additional topics and information relevant to dental infection prevention and control published by CDC since 2003 including:

• Infection prevention program administrative measures,
• Infection prevention education and training,
• Respiratory hygiene and cough etiquette,
• Updated safe injection practices, and
• Administrative measures ...