Download 1. Safety in the Veterinary Industry PPT

Chapter 41
Veterinary Safety
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Right to Know Station
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Will contain all emergency information
- evacuation information
- MSDS sheets
OSHA information
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Safety in the Veterinary Facility
• Staff members required to be properly
trained in safety practices and to
Evacuation plan
maintain a copy of any ______
• Training and yearly safety updates are
required for all employees
• Veterinary facility is required to have
Emergency
_____ plans prepared for multiple issues
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Fire and Safety Plans
• Outline evacuation routes for people and
animals and responsibilities of each staff
member during the emergency
• Fire extinguishers and alarms checked
regularly
• Meeting location that is safe
• Routine fire drills should be
practiced
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Professional Dress
• Scrub uniforms and Lab Coats – easily
cleansed and changed when necessary
• Several uniforms and lab coats should
be available for each staff member
working with animals
• Footwear – close toed shoes or nonslip
sneakers
• Jewelry should be avoided
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Professional Dress
• Limit watches to waterproof types
• Hair ___________
Pulled back
• Tattoos not visible
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Personal Protective Equipment
• Objective: To know what PPE is
available and the proper uses and needs
for it
– Wear exam gloves at all times when working with
chemicals and hazardous materials
– Wear goggles or safety glasses when doing tasks
that may risk eye injury
– Wear ear plugs when working
in noisy areas
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Instruments and Equipment
• “Sharps”- very sharp instruments and
equipment (glass, needles, and surgical
blades)
Biomedical
• _________
waste(red bag) anything that
has had bodily fluids in
or on it (blood syringes,
Catheters, etc)
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Physical Hazards
• Safety concerns that can cause physical
harm to a human or animal’s body
Scratches
• Animal bites and ________
should be
cleaned with warm water and soap;
bandage applied until medical attention
is given
• Most common hazard in veterinary
medicine= animal bites
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Chemical Hazards
• Safety concerns that may cause injury to
the skin, lungs, eyes, or other areas due
to exposure
• Chemotherapy drugs, cleaning agents,
insecticides, and anesthetic gases
• May cause severe injury through direct
contact or through inhalation of vapors
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Biological Hazards
• Safety concerns that pose a risk to
humans and animals by contamination of
micro
________organisms
through body
tissues and fluids
Vaccines
• Blood, urine, feces, and live _______
• Medical waste – concern that living
tissue and fluids may have contagious
and infectious organisms that may cause
zoonotic disease
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Zoonotic Hazards
Zoonotic= disease passed from animals to
humans
• Virus – contagious but most are preventable (Rabies)
• Bacteria – living organism that invades the body
causing illness (Abscesses)
Parasite
• _________organisms that obtain nutrients from host,
can’t live by itself (roundworm, hookworm, fleas)
• Fungus- organism that invades the skin, lives off of
host (ringworm)
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Zoonotic Hazards
Fungus
• _________–
organism that invades the
skin, contagious (ringworm)
• Direct contact – transmission of a
disease through a direct source
• Indirect contact – transmission of a
disease through an
indirect source
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OSHA Guidelines and Regulations
Occupational Safety and Health
Administration
• Provides safe and healthy work
environments and conditions for all
employees
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Material Safety Data Sheets
(MSDS)
Right to Know Station
• ________________
– area where all
OSHA binder information and MSDS
safety sheets should be kept
• MSDS safety sheets – provide
information published by manufacturers
of various products that have the
potential to harm humans within the
facility
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Material Safety Data Sheets
(MSDS)
• OSHA binder – includes safety plans
and list of all chemicals or other products
that should be labeled
• The employee is responsible to read
and understand the facility’s practice
safety manual and regulations and to
read the MSDS safety sheets properly
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Controlled Substances
• By law, drugs that have the potential for
abuse and addiction must be kept in a
locked cabinet
• Schedule I-V, the lower the number the
less the addiction potential
• Drug Enforcement Administration
– regulates the medications
– veterinarians are required to obtain a DEA license
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Controlled Substances
• Controlled substance log
– must be maintained accurately
– must be kept on file for 2 years
– information must be recorded and accurate and
available for inspection at any time
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Review
• What’s in a Right to Know station?
• What is the most common hazard for
someone working in a veterinary clinic?
• What is a MSDS?
• What are the 4 types of physical
hazards?
• What is a controlled substance?
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