From: MCOH-EH [mailto:mcoh-eh-bounces@mylist.net] On Behalf Of Galaid Edward I
Sent: Wednesday, October 17, 2018 11:10 AM
To: mcoh-eh@mylist.net
Subject: [MCOH-EH] New employee orientation: What's your role in initiating a discussion of workplace safety?

 

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We are revamping our presentation  in the short time we are allotted in new employee orientation to discuss safety, and engendering a culture of safety of health in the workplace.

Could you just take a sec to very briefly answer some basic questions…

 

  1. How much time do you get? 20 min
  2. How do you structure it and set the tone….for example…do you present individuals’ stories?  Do you focus on the nuts-and-bolts of how to report and injury, seek care, etc?  Do you discuss the relationship between employee safety and patient safety?  Do you have different modules for employees who are involved in direct patient care, who work in healthcare facilities but not in direct patient care, and those who work in generic administrative and business functions not specifically related to healthcare.

 

We have a Power point that covers :

Ergonomics/Back Safety/Safe patient handling

Workplace Safety/Injury Management and Prevention

Slips/trips/falls

How to report

Exposure to Blood/Body Fluids

Blood borne diseases

Personal Protective Equipment

Exposure to Infectious Diseases

Employee illness

Annual Compliance

Vaccines offered in Occupational Health

We also tell stories during these slides

 

 

In the interest of your valuable time, feel free to respond in sentence fragments…so I can get a flavor of what people are doing…it’ll help us get started.

 

Thanks

 

Ed Galaid

 

 

Edward I. Galaid, MD, MPH, FACOEM

ABIM, ABPM (OM)

Medical Director, Roper St. Francis Physician Partners Occupational Medicine

Charleston, SC

Member, ACOEM Task Group,  Guidance for the Medical Evaluation of Law Enforcement Officers

Member, NFPA 1582 Task Group

(O) 843-402-5053

 

 

 

 


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