conferences & educational opportunities

• 10th Annual Safe Patient Handling & Movement Conference, March 29 - April 2, 2010, Lake Buena Vista, FL (clink link!) 
• American Occupational Health Conference (AOHC^® 2010), May 2-5, 2010, Orlando, FL (click link!)
  AOHP 2010 National Conference - September 15-18, 2010, Boston, MA (click link!)
• Northeast Association of Occupational Health Nurses 2010 Annual Conference - September 22-24, 2010, Meredith, NH (click link!)

Regulatory agencies 

• Occupational Safety & Health Administration (OSHA) 
• Centers for Disease Control & Prevention (CDC)  
• National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations (JCAHO)
• Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS)
• Massachusetts Department of Public Health (MDPH)
• New Hampshire Department of Public Health (NHDPH/DHHS)
• Maine Department of Public Health
• Connecticut Department of Public Health
• Rhode Island Department of Public Health
• Vermont Department of Public Health

professional associations 

• American Association of Occupational Health Nurses (AAOHN)
• Northeast Association of Occupational Health Nurses (NEAOHN) 
• Massachusetts Association of Occupational Health Nurses (MaAOHN)
• American College of Occupational and Environmental Medicine (ACOEM)
• New England College of Occupational and Environmental Medicine (NECOEM)
• American Association of Occupational Health Nurses (AAOHN)
• Northeast Association of Occupational Health Nurses (NEAOHN) 
• Massachusetts Association of Occupational Health Nurses (MaAOHN) 
• American College of Occupational and Environmental Medicine (ACOEM) 

• New England College of Occupational and Environmental Medicine (NECOEM)

Certification

• American Board for Occupational Health Nurses, Inc. (ABOHN)

reference materials & Useful web siteS

All the INLFUENZA information you ever need!

• Centers for Disease Control and Prevention - Seasonal Influenza

• Centers for Disease Control and Prevention - 2009 H1N1 Flu  

Body Fluid Exposures

• Updated U.S. Public Health Service Guidelines for the Management of Occupational Exposures to HBV, HCV, and HIV and Recommendations for Postexposure Prophylaxis - 2001
• Updated U.S. Public Health Service Guidelines for the Management of Occupational Exposures to HIV and Recommendations for Postexposure Prophylaxis - 2005
• Bloodborne Pathogen Standard

Contaminated Sharps Injury Prevention

• OSHA: "Occupational Exposure to Bloodborne Pathogens: Needlestick and Other Sharps Injuries; Final Rule. Jan 18, 2001"

•  OSHA "Standard Interpretations: Safer Medical Devices Must Be Selected Based on Employee Feedback and Device Effectiveness, not Group Purchasing Organizations"Nov. 21,2002
• OSHA "Standard Interpretations: Employer's Responsibility to Re-evaluate Engineering Controls, i.e. Safer Needle Devices, at Least Annually" Jan. 20, 2004 

Employment Screening/ Testing

•  Uniform Guidelines on Employee Selection Procedures (1978)

Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) - New England, Healthcare

•  EPA New England's Healthcare Home page

Ethylene Oxide  

• OSHA Small Business Guide for Ethylene Oxide - 2009 

 Hazardous Drugs

• NIOSH Alert on "Preventing Occupational Exposure to Antineoplastic and Other Hazardous Drugs in Healthcare Facilities"
• Medical Surveillance for Health Care Workers Exposed to Hazardous Drugs
• Nurses Health – A Survey on Health & Chemical Exposure

Hepatitis

• Hepatitis C (MA Dept. of Public Health)

• Hepatitis C - CDC's web page

• Hepatitis B - CDC's website
• Hepatitis A - CDC's web page  

Infection Control

• Guidelines for Infection Control in Health Care Personnel, 1998
• PPE Use in Healthcare Settings - CDC PowerPoint Slides

Mesothelioma

• http://www.mesotheliomaweb.org

OSHA Hospital eTool

• OSHA Hospital eTool

Safe Patient Handling Guidance & Equipment

• Prevent, Inc. - Safe Patient Handling Program
• New England Medical Systems - Patient Lifts
• McAuley Medical, Inc. - Safe Patient Handling Solutions
• National Patient Safety Center  

Smoking cessation

• Smoking cessation for nurses

Tuberculosis

• Tuberculosis Education and Training Resource Guide 2003
• Guidelines for Preventing the Transmission of Mycobacterium tuberculosis in Health-Care Settings, 2005  

Vaccines, Immunizations & Vaccine Information Sheets

• Immunization Information and Vaccine Information Sheets
• Immunization of Healthcare Workers - CDC Guidelines
• Vaccines - ACIP Recommendations
• "The Pink Book" - On-line from the CDC

Violence in the Workplace

• More Than Half of Emergency Department Nurses Have Been Physically Assaulted at Work, EHS today, Jul 28, 2009

Wellness Program Tools

• CDC's LEAN Works! A Workplace Obesity Prevention Program
• WELCOA Wellness Councils of America - Free Resources

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