Legacy OSHA: What to Expect from Compliancy Group's Legacy OSHA Product?

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What Does Our Product Cover?

Compliancy Group’s OSHA product covers the OSHA regulations most frequently encountered by dental offices and medical offices. These include the regulations on bloodborne pathogens, hazard communications, respiratory protection, and others. The OSHA product also covers those regulations most frequently encountered by a non-medical office business associate. These regulations include some of the same regulations that a doctor’s office encounters, such as hazard communication. These regulations don’t include all of the doctor office regulations - they don’t include the ones specific to medical settings, like bloodborne pathogens.

No one of our OSHA products, whether for CE non-dental, CE dental, or BAs, covers ALL of the regulations a CE or BA need to follow.  There are many more OSHA regulations than HIPAA regulations. The OSHA regulations are much more technically detailed than HIPAA regulations. Our OSHA product covers portions of some of the regulations that are of the greatest importance to CEs and BAs - the ones over which companies are most likely to be fined if they do not meet, and the ones most relevant to a company’s business.

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. The HIPAA Seal indicates someone has made a good-faith effort to satisfy the full extent of HIPAA. We don’t cover the full extent of OSHA, so no Seal. 

There is no OSHA “certification” that a private company can award, just as there is no “HIPAA certification.  So, we don’t award OSHA “certifications” or “certificates.” 

What is the Role of Coaches in the OSHA Process?

Coaches are trained on the substance of HIPAA. This allows the coaches to award the Seal and to guide users through the AIM process. In contrast, with OSHA, coaches are not trained on the subject matter. Coaches are not, nor are they expected to be, subject-matter experts. The job of the coaches is to give clients the OSHA materials that they need, depending on whether the client is a BA, a CE (non-dental) or a CE (dental). The coaches also instruct clients on how to use The Guard to access and complete the OSHA materials. Coaches are not responsible for questions about the materials, including what they mean, and how, when, and where they apply.

Client Responsibility

We don’t guarantee OSHA compliance, or that someone made a good-faith effort to achieve it. Think of our OSHA product as an “a la carte” offering of common OSHA topics. Clients must complete the self-audits and other materials at their own pace, on their own time, without our subject-matter guidance. It’s up to the client to be truthful in attesting to having completed the audits and having read the manuals. Same with the videos. Clients are expected to watch the videos and train employees on the content of the videos, on their own, and on their own time.