What should employers do to ensure chemical safety in the healthcare setting?
What will be an ideal response?
ANSWER:
Employers have a number of responsibilities, including adhering to OSHA standards, implementing a written chemical hygiene plan, ensuring proper engineering controls such as ventilation, storage and waste disposal, providing and maintaining proper PPE, labeling containers, and training employees.
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What will be an ideal response?
You are moving a critically injured patient to a helicopter for rapid transport to a trauma center. The rotors are spinning so that the aircraft can immediately take off. As team leader, what instruction would you provide?
A) "Let's get many people around the backboard so we can safely load him into the aircraft." B) "I need someone to hold the IV bag in the air while we load so he continues to get IV fluids." C) "Will someone please lay the O2 tank on the patient's legs so he continues to get oxygen as we load?" D) "Will someone please securely cover the patient's eyes so that they are not struck with flying dirt?"