HIPAA, OSHA, and Quality Standards

What does OSHA stand for?

Occupational Safety and Health Association

what does HIPAA stand for?

health insurance portability and accountability act

Purpose of osha

protect workers and reduce workplace injuries and disease

focus areas for dentistry: OSHA

• Blood borne pathogens

• hazard communication

• PPE

• exposure control

Purpose of HIPAA

• basically protects the patient’s medical records from going public

• federal law

• privacy rule

• security rule

• protecting protected health information (PHI)

Who enforces OSHA?

OSHA inspector

Who enforces HIPAA?

Office for Civil Rights (OCR)

Habits become ______ under stress

automatic

Regulated medical waste (RMW) Bins are used for what

• visibly bloody/saturated PPE (gowns, gloves)

• cups used to hold extracted teeth

• anything bloody

• Red bin

Sharps container

anything that is sharp

• contaminated broken glass, ortho wire, matrix bands, burs, endo files, extracted teeth without amalgam

Hazardous waste containers

• torches

• waste chemicals

• aerosol cans

• compressed gas cylinders

• ignitable, corrosive, reactive, or toxic items

An item in the cassette/kit is missing

an instrument marked with this tag requires sharpening

an instrument wrapped with this band requires repair/replacement

Compliance

Is professionalism made visible