Interdisciplinary group approach to occupational safety and health administration standard: reductions in cost and duplication of effort.
After the December 1991 publication of the Occupational Safety and Health Administration standard, "Occupational Exposure to Bloodborne Pathogens; Final Rule," medical facilities in the United States were challenged to meet the mandates of this standard with massive training in a relatively short time. An interdisciplinary task force composed of representative members of a major health maintenance organization was charged with the task of developing a training plan for 11 Southern California medical centers and their 42 satellite medical offices. The task force ultimately developed, refined, and distributed a Trainer Guidebook that could be used by a variety of disciplines. This guidebook provided a method by which the information could be disseminated concisely, thoroughly, and promptly. The processes used in this project can be applied to other health care educational situations. The purpose of this article is to share these processes.
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Infection Control Department, Kaiser Permanente Fontana Medical Center, CA.
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D017046:Cost Savings; D017598:Efficiency, Organizational; D006282:Health Personnel / Q000193:education*; D006284:Health Plan Implementation; D006801:Humans; D017053:Infection Control; D016273:Occupational Exposure / Q000517:prevention & control*; D016730:Program Development; D011380:Programmed Instructions as Topic; D013663:Teaching / Q000191:economics / Q000379:methods*; D014481:United States; D014489:United States Occupational Safety and Health Administration