Occupational Medicine-Your Valued Partner in Biosafety

Occupational Health is often referred to as a multi-disciplinary approach to developing and ensuring compliance with safe working practices, and maintaining the health and well-being of those employed in a particular occupation or workplace.  This live webinar will focus on the latest in occupational health information and will include a wide range of topics to be considered in an effective occupational health program including developing appropriate questionnaires and trainings for everything from allergies and zoonotic diseases to exposure response and good record keeping.  In addition, topics of special interest, such as travel medicine and reproductive toxicity, will be introduced. For more information and registration info go to http://www.absa.org/eduocchealth.html.

You are required to attend the webinar session, complete the pre and post assessments, and evaluation in order to earn P.A.C.E.® Contact Hours*.

Topics:

• Initial and periodic health questionnaires
• Allergies
• Respiratory protection program
• Regulatory compliance
• Confidentiality of medical records and HIPAA compliance
• High risk agents and toxins
• Reliability & suitability training
• Fitness-for-duty evaluations
• Exposure response procedures
• Onsite exposure response
• Reproductive toxicity
• Zoonoses
• Travel
• Medicine and/or vaccine administration

The webinar will be presented by Thomas H. Winters, MD, FACOEM, FACPM, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA and T. Warner Hudson, MD FACOEM, FAAFP, University of California-Los Angeles Health System and Campus, Los Angeles, CA.