Patient and Workplace Safety Measures in Healthcare is designed to educate Healthcare Personnel (HCP) on how to protect patients and themselves from workplace hazards and violence.
After the Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1970, Congress established the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) with the purpose of creating safe and health conscience work conditions by setting and enforcing standards and providing training, outreach, education, and assistance.
Workplace violence is any act or threat of physical violence, harassment, intimidation, or other threatening disruptive behavior that occurs at the work site. It ranges from threats and verbal abuse to physical assaults and even homicide. It can affect and involve employees, clients, customers, and visitors.
What you’ll learn
- Define OSHA and OSHA Job poster and record keeping
- Injury and Illness prevention program
- Understanding of Fire safety prevention, Emergency action plan
- Workplace violence and its prevention program
- How to Handle patient safely and radiation protection
Details
Course length: 45 mints; CEU: 0.75.
Languages: American English
Key features: Audio narration, learning activity and post-assessment
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ACCME Accreditation
American Medical Compliance is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) to provide continuing medical education to physicians. Our Continuing Medical Education (CME) program is committed to enhancing the knowledge, skills, and professional performance of healthcare providers to improve patient care outcomes. Through high-quality educational activities, we aim to address the identified educational gaps and to support the continuous professional development of our medical community. American Medical Compliance designates this activity for a maximum of 0.75 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits. Physicians should only claim this credit for their complete participation in this activity.
What is OSHA?
Congress established the Occupational Health and Safety Administration (OSHA) in 1970. In doing this, they aimed to create safer work environments. The healthcare industry presents a wide variety of occupational risks to employees, including fire risks, workplace violence, radiation exposure, and many more. This course educates employees on these risks and many more. And, it teaches learners how they can stay safe on the job.
Injury and Illness Prevention Program
Prevention programs stop workplace hazards from becoming a reality. Creating and following a prevention program is one of the most effective ways employers can reduce hazards in the workplace. All workers are responsible for maintaining a safe workplace environment. The program should include common risks in the workplace, some of which may be aerosol transmissible diseases. This course educates learners on the details of implementing an injury and illness prevention program.
Fire Safety and Prevention
Fire safety and prevention plans are essential to keeping employees safe in the event of a fire. Because of this, workplace should create fire prevention plans. These plans are proven to save lives, and OSHA has identified five aspects that all fire prevention plans should include. They include:
- Identifying all major fire hazards in a workplace
- Procedures to control accumulations of flammable and combustible waste materials
- Procedures for regular maintenance of safeguards installed on heat-producing equipment to prevent the accidental ignition of combustible materials
- Names and job titles of employees who are responsible for maintaining equipment to prevent or control sources of fires
- Names and job titles of employees who are responsible for controlling fuel source hazards
Our course teaches learners essential details of creating a fire prevention plan. These are only a few basics that should be included in such a plan.
Patient and Workplace Safety Measures Regarding Workplace Violence
Learners will understand the risks of workplace violence after completing this course. This is important because violence against healthcare workers is on the rise. The Bureau of Labor Statistics estimates that over 18,000 employees suffer injuries from workplace violence, and over 500 die each year.
This number should be zero. Training is essential to help employees feel prepared to handle risky situations and keep them safe.
Identifying Violence in the Workplace
OSHA defines workplace violence as “any act or threat of physical violence, harassment, intimidation, or other threatening disruptive behavior that occurs at the workplace and can range from threats, verbal abuse to physical assaults and even homicide”.
Violence in the workplace can take a variety of forms, including:
- Threats of physical violence
- Harassment
- Intimidation
- Other threatening disruptive behavior
There are four types of workplace violence:
- Violence by strangers
- Violence by clients
- Violence by coworkers
- Violence by personal relationships
Certain settings make workplace violence more likely to occur. Identifying the presence of these settings in the workplace is important in terms of reducing the risks posed to employees.
Steps to Keep Employees Safe
There are a number of steps employers can take to keep employees safe.
First, teaching staff to identify risk factors and warning signs prevents violent incidents from escalating.
Second, employers can develop emergency action plans in the event of an emergency. Emergency action plans educate staff on what to do in the event of various incidents.
Third, employers can develop evacuation procedures. This ensures employees can exit the workplace to safety in the event of a dangerous incident.
Understanding how to implement these solutions in-depth is essential to protecting your staff. Taking the Violence in the Workplace 3 course will provide this essential information.
Violence Prevention Program
OSHA recommends employers develop a workplace violence prevention program. This program should be shared with all employees. The program requires active input and participation from managers and employees, an understanding of risks in the workplace, training, and recordkeeping. Learn more about how to develop a violence prevention program by taking the course.
Patient and Workplace Safety Measures Online Course
Learners take this course fully online, and they can take it from any location at any time that works for them. Because of this, learners can absorb the content at their own pace in a comfortable environment. This improves their retention of content and creates a more enjoyable learning experience.
