30th Annual Occupational Safety and Health
Winter Institute
Environmental Health & Safety Management Systems in Healthcare
February 15-17, 2010
Tradewinds Island Grand
St. Pete Beach, Florida
TECH EXAM WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 17 at 11:30 AM.
PLEASE MAKE TRAVEL PLANS ACCORDINGLY.
Management systems require organizations to say what they do, show what they do, prove it and improve it. This would be the path less traveled for healthcare, but sometimes the path less traveled can be the most beneficial. This course is designed to further educate healthcare environmental health & safety and industrial hygiene professionals about the option to adopt management systems such as ISO 9001, ISO 14001 and OHSAS 18001, which have been proven successful worldwide in many other industries.
Course Faculty
Scott Harris, PhD, MPH, IESO, LLC, Lexington, KY
Tony Stewart, CSP, CHMM, REA, Sutter Health, Sacramento, CA
Objectives
At the conclusion of this session participants will be able to:
- Describe the benefits effective from EH&S and IH management systems in the healthcare industry.
- Describe how the presenters obtained administrative support and funding for voluntary international environmental management systems.
- Describe how the in-house systems functions to help healthcare organizations establish continual improvement processes.
- Describe how to implement EH&S and IH business plans and stress the importance of management systems to key shareholders.
Agenda Topics
- Discuss the regulatory and compliance needs for establishing and maintaining EH&S and Industrial Hygiene management systems in the healthcare sector.
- Describe and discuss the traditional inspection focused survey methodologies and the current options and benefits of implementing an outcomes based, process oriented management system.
- Discuss the benefits of integrating the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) management system standards (i.e. ISO 9001, ISO 14001, and OHSAS 18001).
- Describe how to incorporate an EH&S and Industrial Hygiene business plan and promotion of management reviews to further validate the business case for environmental health & safety and industrial hygiene (i.e., obtaining funding from leadership, establishing system criteria, documenting and communication of environmental policies to key shareholders).
- Describe how to identify, formulate, and prioritize risks by ranking environmental health & safety and industrial hygiene aspects and impacts tailored to the healthcare industry.
- Describe how management systems help organizations formulate quality, environmental and occupational safety and health policies and objectives.
- Q&A
Credit
1 Elective Tech Credit
ABIH (Category 4) requested
1.5 BCSP
CEUs requested
Additional Information
Course begins Monday, February 15 at 8:00 am and ends Wednesday, February 17 at 11:00 am.
Tuition and Registration
Please
review our Registration
Policies.
Tuition
for this course is $815/$915 after
Jan. 29.
To
register online, go to the Winter Institute Registration Form.
You may also submit your registration via email;
please be sure to include the course title and
date.
For
further information on this course, contact the NC ERC
office at osherc@unc.edu,
or call us at 919-962-2101, toll free at 888-235-3320.
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