What Do OSHA's Medical and Dental OSHA Solutions Cover?

What Does Our Product Cover?

Compliancy Group’s OSHA medical and dental solutions cover the OSHA regulations most frequently encountered by dental offices and medical offices. These include the regulations on bloodborne pathogens, hazard communications, respiratory protection, emergency action, and fire prevention, among others.  

Neither of our OSHA products (OSHA medical or OSHA dental) covers every single regulation required to be fully OSHA compliant. OSHA regulates many subjects having nothing to do with healthcare per se. These subjects include (among others) requirements for the length and width of stairs, fall protection systems, powered platform safety, forklift safety, and crane safety. Our OSHA products cover the regulations that are of greatest pertinence to medical and dental offices - the regulations with respect to which medical and dental offices are most likely to be fined if they do not meet, and the ones that address healthcare safety in particular.

OSHA Certification and Our Seal of Compliance

Since we don’t cover the full spectrum of the OSHA regulations, we do not offer a Seal of Compliance for our OSHA medical or dental solutions. The HIPAA Seal indicates someone has made a good-faith effort to satisfy the full extent of HIPAA. 

There is no OSHA “certification” that a private company can award, just as there is no “HIPAA certification.  So, Compliancy Group does not award OSHA “certification."

What is the Role of Coaches, CSMs, and SMEs With Respect to Our OSHA Content?

Coaches and CSMs are not OSHA subject-matter experts. Questions about OSHA requirements that do not require legal or consulting advice, are forwarded to Compliancy Group's subject matter experts (SMEs), who will attempt to answer without providing legal or consultant advice.  An example of a question that an SME can answer: "What are the recordkeeping requirements for the bloodborne pathogens standard?"  An example of a question that an SME cannot answer: "I have added additional OSHA standards to the material Compliancy Group has provided me. Is my program, which has Compliancy Group's materials as well as OSHA standards I added, legally sufficient to avoid OSHA investigations and fines?"

Client Responsibility

Clients complete our medical and dental solution self-audits, implement programs and plans, and review policies and procedures, at their own pace.  If a regulation requires an activity to be completed within a specific time frame, the client can attest to having completed the activity within that time frame. Indeed, clients may use the Guard's attestation feature to have employees attest to having undertaken any number of efforts, including having reviewed and understood policies and procedures and having reviewed and understood training presentations.