Work Safety starts with You

Next week is Work Safe Week, which through Statewide lectures and events, offers employers and staff ways to help make health and safety improvements at work. It has been said that work safety is like parenting – it works with conversations rather than commands. The Safe Work Australia slogan uses this idea: ‘Safety begins with “s” but starts with YOU’.

For the dental team, this promotional week may encourage them to discuss and review their infection control policy and procedures.

In the light of a new American study, practice reviews would be timely. The study looked at dental surgery compliance with infection control guidelines from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, finding that implementation was neither complete nor uniform across all practices.