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 Guidelines for Dentistry:
Guidelines from OSHA and the CDC:
- For CDC's 2003 Infection Control guidelines for Dentistry
click here
- For a copy of OSHA's Bloodborne Pathogens Standard,
click here
- OSHA requires annual training for all who are possibly exposed to potentially infectious materials as part of their job duties. The annual training must be taught by a knowledgeable instructor, must be interactive, and must include all of the topics listed.
For topics that must be covered during annual training, click here.
- For a copy of OSHA's Needlestick Safety and Prevention Act,
click here
- For a copy of OSHA's Hazard Communication Standard, click here.
- We're supposed to have a copy of this in our OSHA notebook that basically says that employees have access to exposure records and medical records.
Print it out and put in your OSHA notebook:
click here
Specific infection control recommendations:
- Updated US Public Health Service Guidelines for the Management of Occupational Exposures to HBV, HCV, and HIV and Recommendations for Postexposure Prophylaxis (Information about hepatitis B booster recommendations and post-exposure prophylaxis can be found in the Appendix section, Table 3--updated HIV PEP info available in "Updated US Public Health Service Guidelines for the Management of Occupational Exposures to HIV and Recommendations for Postexposure Prophylaxis, (MMWR, 9/30/05, Vol. 54, No. RR-9)
click here
- For the latest recommendations from the CDC about HIV postexposure prophylaxis ("Updated US Public Health Service Guidelines for the Management of Occupational Exposure to HIV and Recommendations for Post-Exposure Prophylaxis"), go to the following link:
click here
- For Questions and Answers about Hepatitis B, the Hepatitis B vaccine,
titer testing, and boosters, check out this information from the CDC.
click here
- For the new TB standard for health care workers, go to:
click here
- To help prevent the transmission of respiratory infections in the dental office,
the CDC recommends that patients use proper "cough etiquette":
click here
- Immunization of Health Care Workers
click here
- For more than you ever wanted to know about hand hygiene in health care settings, here are the CDC's 2002 recommendations:
click here
X-Ray Information:
- X-Ray Badge Information: X-ray badges are only required for pregnant employees, as a general rule, but check with your local board to make sure it's not required by your state.
Click here for more information
The Georgia Department of Community Health also recognizes that dental health care workers rarely receive enough radiation to require the use of dosimetry badges.
To check out the Georgia laws, there are two links.
Click the first link: http://rules.sos.state.ga.us/docs/290/5/22/03.pdf
and look at section (3) under "Personnel Monitoring" and you'll see that we rarely meet the minimum requirements to necessitate the use of x-ray dosimetry badges.
And click here http://rules.sos.state.ga.us/docs/290/5/22/04.pdf
for general rules under “X-rays in the Healing Arts”.
- Check out the recommendations from the FDA and ADA regarding the
frequency and types of dental x-rays for various classes of patients:
click here for - “The use of dental radiographs”
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