By Raleigh F. “Sandy” Seay Historians tell us that plagues or pandemics or epidemics are not uncommon in the continuing narrative of the Long Debate. In the last two centuries, we have seen the Spanish Flu, the Asian Flu, the Hong Kong Flu, Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) and now, COVID-19.(1) COVID-19 has run rampant…
Q&A with Mary Borg-Bartlett and Gary D. Morgan, CDT, ASQ CQA of SafeLink Consulting, Inc. Safety of workers and patients is not an easy task in these difficult times. Dental labs must consider not only the regulatory side of protecting workers but also the practical side of how to manufacture under constraints being placed on…
Eliminating hazards from COVID-19 remains a top priority for OSHA. As workplaces reopen, OSHA will continue to ensure safe and healthy conditions for America’s working men and women and has released the following: https://www.osha.gov/memos/2020-05-19/updatedinterim-enforcement-response-plan-coronavirus-disease-2019-covid-19. In geographic areas where community spread of COVID-19 has significantly decreased, OSHA will return to the inspection planning policy that OSHA…
Reprinted with permission from SafeLink Consulting, Inc. Managing the Coronavirus in a Dental Lab or Dental Practice Setting Tuesday, February 11, 2020 . posted by Gary Morgan, CDT, ASQ CQA The current outbreak of the 2019 Novel Coronavirus (2019-nCoV) has generated a lot of questions from our clients on what they should be doing in their dental laboratory…
Knock, Knock. It’s OSHA At Your Dental Office! By: Gary Iocco OSHA is at your dental office for an inspection, what do you do? Front Office says that OSHA is here for a random inspection and your schedule is full. What do you do? Technically, you may refuse the inspector entry, in…