Respiratory Protection Toolkit: Providing Guidance Without Changing Requirements-Can We Make an Impact?

Abstract:

:International travel and infectious respiratory illnesses worldwide place health care workers (HCWs) at increasing risk of respiratory exposures. To ensure the highest quality safety initiatives, one health care system used a quality improvement model of Plan-Do-Study-Act and guidance from Occupational Safety and Health Administration's (OSHA) May 2015 Hospital Respiratory Protection Program (RPP) Toolkit to assess a current program. The toolkit aided in identification of opportunities for improvement within their well-designed RPP. One opportunity was requiring respirator use during aerosol-generating procedures for specific infectious illnesses. Observation data demonstrated opportunities to mitigate controllable risks including strap placement, user seal check, and reuse of disposable N95 filtering facepiece respirators. Subsequent interdisciplinary collaboration resulted in other ideas to decrease risks and increase protection from potentially infectious respiratory illnesses. The toolkit's comprehensive document to evaluate the program showed that while the OSHA standards have not changed, the addition of the toolkit can better protect HCWs.

journal_name

Workplace Health Saf

authors

Bien EA,Gillespie GL,Betcher CA,Thrasher TL,Mingerink DR

doi

10.1177/2165079916657831

subject

Has Abstract

pub_date

2016-12-01 00:00:00

pages

596-602

issue

12

eissn

2165-0799

issn

2165-0969

pii

2165079916657831

journal_volume

64

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