1. Warm-up How many of following symbols can you identify?

2. Radiation Biohazard Irritant Explosive Flammable Sharps Poison Slip Hazard Electrical Danger

3. Why are signs important to safety in healthcare setting? A recent study found that safety signs that inform you of danger can reduce accident rates in the workplace by up to 80%.

4. What is the value of a safety plan? An average of 6,000 people die as a result of work-related accidents or diseases, totaling more than 2.2 million work-related deaths a year. A comprehensive workplace safety program can decrease the likely hood of a workplace injury by up to 50 percent. Workplace injury and illness are more costly than all cancers combined.

5. Safety in Healthcare Setting Objective: We will identify safety practices in all aspects of the health science industry and we will create a healthcare safety poster and deliver a presentation with demonstration to our classmates.

6. Infection Control What are Universal Precautions and Standard Precautions? An approach to infection control to treat all human blood and human body fluids as if they were known to be infectious for HIV, HBV and other bloodborne pathogens. Standard Precautions an outgrowth or more comprehensive version of Universal Precautions.

7. Infection Control Standard Precautions include the following; 1.Hand Hygiene 2.Injection Safety 3.Environmental Cleaning 4.PPE (personal protective equipment) 5.Medical Equipment 6.Respiratory Hygience/Cough Etiquette

8. Infection Control What are Transmission Precautions? recommended to provide additional precautions beyond Standard Precautions to interrupt transmission of pathogens in hospitals. 1. Airborne Precautions 2. Droplet Precautions 3. Contact Precautions

9. Safety Presentation You will be assigned as a group a safety topic from the following areas; Fire Safety Infection Control Ergonomics Your group will develop a presentation to deliver to the class that includes; 1.Poster 2.Verbal Presentation 3.Demonstration

10. Teamwork Z ACLG KROVNTB SBWPUDHC MEFYQXILJVA Remember! You can work more effectively and get more done by working in a team. DIVIDE and CONQUER

11. Safety Topics 1.Fire Safety- RACE 2.Fire Extinguisher- Types and Use (PASS) 3.PPE -personal protective equipment 4.Injection Safety 5.Transmission Precautions 6.Biohazardous Waste Clean-up and Disposal 7.Medical Equipment (Basic usage) 8.Hand Hygiene 9.Body Mechanics 10.Environmental Cleaning (Disinfect vs. Sterilize)

12. Safety Topics 1.Fire Safety- RACE 2.Fire Extinguisher- Types and Use (PASS) 3.PPE -personal protective equipment 4.Injection Safety 5.Transmission Precautions 6.Biohazardous Waste Clean-up and Disposal 7.Hand Hygiene 8.Body Mechanics