Is a short presentation, with or without a Power Point of 12 topics really supposed to create safety, or is just so you can say you did. If it does creat safety, how would you know?

I am reminded of employee training I took from time to time, the objective of which seemed to be not so much that I learned anything but more for the authorities to say I acted contrary to the training I received.

William a Hyman
Texas A&M University

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   2. Re:  New employee orientation: What's your role in initiating
      a discussion of workplace safety? (Seeburger, Sara)
   3.  Employee Health access to EPIC question (Shea, Joann)


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Message: 2
Date: Thu, 18 Oct 2018 15:44:19 +0000
From: "Seeburger, Sara" <SaraSeeburger@Centura.Org>
To: MCOH/EH <mcoh-eh@mylist.net>
Subject: Re: [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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