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Pick the OSHA training that’s right for your facility

Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, November 7, 2006

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Having been through a dozen OSHA inspections during her career, infection control (IC) professional Connie Steed, RN, BSN, CIC, has a good sense of which best practices can keep hospitals out of trouble with the agency.

Steed, director of IC at Greenville (SC) Hospital System, passed on her advice to attendees of the 18th annual Basic Training for Surveillance, Prevention, and Control of Healthcare-Associated Infections conference. The meeting-which was sponsored by ICP Associates, LLC, in Rome, GA-took place during August in Atlanta.

OSHA training must be interactive, according to the agency. If your hospital uses computer-based or online training to satisfy OSHA training requirements, trainees need access to an expert for any questions that they may have.

You can achieve this goal by

  • having someone there in person during the online education
  • staffing a hotline for questions
  • offering trainees a pager number to call

Greenville Hospital System keeps an IC professional available by beeper 24 hours per day, seven days per week for any training-related questions.

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