2 Topics/1 Day - High Stakes Dental Safety: Don’t Panic, You’ve Got This! and Right Under (and Up) Our Noses… And Evolving Before Our Eyes, Emerging & Re-emerging Diseases

High Stakes Dental Safety

This combined course covers CA Dental Board’s CE requirements, and reviews CAL OSHA annual training topics. Perfect your safety program, address some possible weak links and consider your safety options! Review physical and chemical hazards and today’s disease transmission risks, considering bloodborne, contact, and airborne
pathogens. Get the links to the best resources and get some great safety tips! Bring your whole safety team!

Optional: Attendees learn by trying out several safety products and practices.

Outcomes:

• Recognize and manage bloodborne, contact, droplet and airborne diseases.
• Identify best practices to protect workers and patients.
• Make sense of evolving rules and recommendations for changing infection risks.
• Review physical, biological and chemical Hazard Communications.

Right Under (and Up) Our Noses

This interactive seminar explores personal health issues such as new and altered diseases of importance to dental professionals, expanding on the topics covered in annual infection control and OSHA training. Attention is given to resistant pathogens, biofilm diseases, and pathogens with pandemic potential, particularly respiratory diseases, relative to occupational risk, illness prevention, and post-exposure responses. Practice and evaluate hand hygiene techniques and PPE use. Leave with a plan for managing today’s microbial challenges using Standard and Transmission-based precautions, including building air safety control.

Learning Objectives:

• Recognize and assess well-known infectious diseases.
• Be able to identify and explain current trends in infectious diseases.
• Be informed of and prepared for safety challenges.
• Select infection control and safety strategies for usual and unusual disease risks.

Ms. Dewhirst graduated from the University of Southern California, practiced dental hygiene for 20 years, is adjunct dental hygiene faculty at West Coast University, is a member of Sigma Phi Alpha. She is Editor in Chief of OSAP’s ICIP newsletter and has numerous articles published. She is consistently listed as one of the nation’s “Leaders in CE,” and presents over 100 seminars a year at major U.S. and Canadian Dental Conferences.