Description
Healthcare workers rely on their backs for many of their daily tasks. Workplace back injuries are costly, painful, and common. In fact, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, more than one million workers suffer a back injury on the job each year and one out of every five injury at work is back related. Healthcare workers must lift, transfer, and move patients with proper form that protects both their delicate back and the patients.
This training is designed to make back injury prevention on the job simple and emphasizes the importance of proper technique, good posture and injury prevention while transferring patients, lifting, twisting, and reaching.
Back Safety for Healthcare Training Class Topic Overview:
- Anatomy of the back
- Causes of back pain
- Proper lifting, transfer and carrying techniques
- Equipment for safe lifting procedures
- Helpful back safety guidelines
Workers in the healthcare industry are at high risk for coming in contact with bloodborne pathogens or BBP. These microorganisms are present in human blood and can infect workers if they come in contact with blood or infectious materials through their skin, eye, mucous membranes or open wound.
This training is an important part of a workplace safety plan that will help all workers in healthcare understand the risks of BBP and how to limit exposure and infections.
Bloodborne Pathogens BBP in Healthcare Training Class Topic Overview:
- Overview of OSHA Standard 29 CFR 1910.1030
- Bloodborne Pathogen Exposure Control Plans
- Overview of bloodborne diseases
- Preventing exposure in the workplace
- How to use Personal Protective Equipment
- Engineering and work practice controls
- Exposure incident procedures
HIPAA Privacy & Security Training Class Topic Overview:
- Private Health Information
- Patient Access
- Other Uses of PHI
- Administrative Safeguards
- Safeguards for Security
- Administrative
- Physical
- Technical
- Compliance and Enforcement
Healthcare Safety Orientation Training Class Topic Overview:
- Slips, Trips & Falls
- Back Safety
- Fire Safety
- Electrical Safety
- Hazard Communication
- Personal Protective Equipment
- Bloodborne Pathogens
- Needlesticks
- Handling Medical Waste
- Good Housekeepin
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