- About This Course
- Legislation
About This Course
This online training course equips dental professionals with the essential knowledge and skills to handle sharps safely and prevent injuries in the workplace, by reducing health risks and ensuring compliance with safety standards in dentistry. The course is designed to foster a safe and efficient environment for the entire team.
Aims
To educate dental teams to prevent sharps injuries through awareness, safe practices, and proper management. This course will help reduce injuries, health risks and ensure compliance with established safety standards.
Objectives
To understand:
- What a sharps injury is, how injuries happen and how to prevent them
- Safe sharp practices
- Safe disposal of sharps
- How to deal with a sharps injury
Learning Outcomes
On completion of this course you will:
- Be able to explain what a sharps injury is and the procedure for dealing with an injury if it occurs
- Understand what best practice is for handling sharps
- Understand your responsibility for disposing of sharps
GDC Development Outcomes
Legislation
- HTM 01-05 (2013) Decontamination of Surgical Instruments.
- WHTM 01-05 (2014) Welsh Health Technical Memorandum.
- SDCEP (2014) Scottish Dental Clinical Effectiveness Programme.
- DHSSPSNI (2013) Department of Health, Social Services and Public Safety for Northern Ireland.
- HTM 07-01 (2023) Safe and Sustainable Management of Healthcare Waste
- The Health and Safety Sharp Instruments in Healthcare Regulations 2013.
General Dental Council
- Principle 7: Maintain and develop professional knowledge and skills.
- Principle 8: Raise concerns if patients are at risk.
Care Quality Commission
- Regulation 15: Premises and equipment.
- Regulation 17: Good governance.
- Regulation 18: Staffing.