OSHA Long Term Care Worker Protection Train the Trainer Program Part 1: Introduction

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OSHA Long Term Care Worker ProtectionTrain the
Trainer ProgramPart 1 Introduction
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Plan for the Day

• Introduction
• Engaging workers in health and safety
• Review of LTCWPP materials and content
• Planning the training sessions
• Strategies to customize the training
• Best practices with presentation materials,
  teaching techniques
• Evaluation tools/Post-Test
• Data gathering for trainers

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Purpose

• Provide support and materials to Long Term Care
  supervisors, administrators, and educators to
  assist them in teaching long term care workers
  the key safety hazards in their work environment
  and how to avoid and control these hazards.
• Outcome Creative and engaging safety education
  for all long term care workers that will support
  their avoiding injury, enhancing the safety of
  the environment, and securing great patient
  outcomes.

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Introduction to the LTCWPP
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Objectives

• Identify the content and materials for the LTC
  Worker Protection Program.
• Discuss ways to make this education possible in
  any LTC setting.
• Recognize strategies to customize educational
  sessions for specific groups of workers.
• Discuss best practices for using presentation
  materials.
• Identify the importance of evaluating all
  educational sessions.

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Your experience with OSHA?
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How much does your staff know about OSHA?
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OSHA has an important role

• On average, 15 workers die every day from job
  related injuries.
• 4400 Americans died from workplace injuries in
  2009 this is down from 5657 in 2008.
• 3.3 million recordable non-fatal workplace
  injuries and illnesses occurred in 2009 3.7 in
  2008.
• 1.24 million days away from work 2009, a 9
  reduction from prior year.
• OSHA is focused on enhancing the safety of
  workplaces and the health of all workers.

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Injuries and Healthcare?

• More than 250,000 healthcare workers are injured
  on the job each year.
• Long term care accounts for a high of these
  injuries.
• Healthcare industry spends more than 20 billion
  annually in workers compensation and related
  costs due to employee injuries and illnesses.

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OSHA Strategies

• Strong, fair, and effective enforcement.
• Outreach, education, and compliance assistance.
• Partnerships, Alliances, and other cooperative
  and voluntary programs.
• Key Focus
• Work to help employers provide a safe working
  environment for all employees.

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OSHA Purpose and Scope

• Requires, in part, that every employer covered
  under the Act furnish a place of employment that
  is free from recognized hazards that are causing
  or are likely to cause death or serious physical
  harm to employees. 1903.1
• Requires that employers comply with the OSHA
  standards, rules, regulations, and orders.
• Requires that each employee shall comply with
  occupational safety and health standards and all
  applicable rules, regulations, and orders.

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Impact

• When Employees stay safe and healthy
• better quality of work outcomes (patient
  outcomes!).
• higher productivity.
• lower workers compensation costs.
• fewer injuries/illnesses that require
• time off, replacement employees, and
  overtime.
• reduced medical expenses.
• overall, more satisfied employees.

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Major Impact on Resident Care
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Code of Federal Regulations

• 29 CFR 1910 Occupational Health and Safety
  Standards for General Industry
• Standards that are either national consensus
  standards or federal standards already
  established by Federal statutes or regulations.

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Title 29 Chapter XVII

• Set aside for OSHA.
• Regulations are broken down into Parts.
• Part 1910, contains the General Industry
  Regulations.
• Each Part is then broken into major Subparts.

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Where will you find this?
1903.2 (a)(1) Each employer shall post and keep
posted
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Worker Rights

• A safe and healthful workplace.
• Know about hazardous chemicals.
• Information about injuries and illnesses in your
  workplace.
• Complain or request hazard correction from
  employer.
• Hazard exposure and medical records.
• File a complaint with OSHA.
• Participate in an OSHA inspection.
• Be free from retaliation for exercising safety
  and health rights.

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Processes

• Inspections OSHA is authorized to enter any
  factory, plant, establishment, construction site,
  or other workplace to inspect and investigate ..
• In 2009, OSHA conducted 39,004 inspections.
• Inspection Priorities
• reports of imminent danger
• fatalities or hospitalization of 3
  employees
• employee complaints
• referrals from other government agencies
• targeted inspections

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Employee Involvement

• Have a system for reporting injuries and
  illnesses and inform employees.
• Keep the system simple and easy for employees.
• Encourage employees to share their ideas on what
  processes currently are helping to enhance safety
  and health.
• Ask employees for their ideas on how to enhance
  workplace safety.

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How does all this relate to long term care
settings?

• The standards apply to private sector healthcare
  settings.
• The standards are very relevant, for example
• Hazardous substances
• Personal protective equipment
• Work surfaces
• Lifting/ergonomics
• Fire Protection
• Exit Routes, Emergency Action
  Plans, Fire Prevention Plans

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Application to Long Term Care Settings

• Safety and health are core to all long term care
  organizations.
• The safety and health of employees is critical to
  patient safety and the success of any
  organization.
• Focus of OSHA is helping employers to create and
  sustain safe and healthy environments and protect
  employees from hazardous materials and
  situations.
• All workers in long term care settings can
  benefit from understanding and complying with
  OSHA!

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LTCWP Train the Trainer Program

• Key focus today helping you to find the best,
  the easiest, the most effective ways to share
  this information with all of your LTC workers.
• Encourage networking and sharing of best
  practices.

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Questions?

• Suggestions or Comments?