Good Day fellow Dentists!
This topic is about how we deal ourselves in prospect to health and safety of our practice.
We are widely exposed to the elements specifically in Security, Safety of our work area, and Health Concerns due to biological agents.
This topic may also relate to the our practice of Occupational Health and Safety in the companies that we handle or we may handle.
I hope this would be an interesting topic.
As a Dentist engaging in providing services or being contracted as their company dentist in the manufacturing, BPO and other services sector.
The Department of Labor and Employment has a minimum requirement of training for us to be accredited to be a part of their Occupational Health and Safety Personnel.
An Occupational Health and Safety Personnel in the clinic is composed of the Company Doctor, Company Dentist, Company Nurse and the First Aiders.
Also included are the Safety Officers, Top Management Representatives, Supervisors and Trained Employees.
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Our duties and responsibilities in the company is stated in the Implementing Rules and Regulations of the Industrial Hygiene Code of Sanitation. Published last January 1999.