OSHA Long Term Care Worker Protection Train the Trainer Program Part 2: Engaging Workers in Health

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OSHA Long Term Care Worker ProtectionTrain the
Trainer ProgramPart 2 Engaging Workers in
Health Safety Education
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Objectives

• Identify specific mechanisms to engage all long
  term care workers in workplace safety and health
  education.
• Explore the principles of adult education as they
  might apply to these educational sessions.
• Discuss approaches to increasing the interest and
  involvement of all LTC workers in this education.
• Recognize the potential impact of this education
  on the individuals, the residents, and the
  organization.

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How much does your staff know about OSHA?
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How focused are LTC workers on workplace health
and safety?
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Engaging Participants

• Make it personal protecting their health and
  the health of their families.
• This is a powerful motivation for many
  individuals we all want to stay healthy!
• Protecting the residents from harm, illness.
• Many LTC workers become attached and personally
  concerned about the individuals they care for
  this can be a motivation for their learning more!

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Adult Education Principles
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Adult Education Principles

• Want to be treated with respect.
• Often learn better by doing active
  participation in the learning!
• Value repetition and reminders.

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Characteristics of Adult Learners

• Self-motivated.
• Expect immediate application to their work/life.
• Want to be actively involved in the education.

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Characteristics

• Like to interact with each other and the
  instructor.
• Learn from the sharing that occurs between
  participants.
• Respond best to use of a variety of teaching
  approaches.

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Set clear expectations!

• Following health and safety guidelines at work is
  not optional.
• Individual accountability.
• Be certain that all workers know the
  expectations.
• Reinforce with role modeling and clear language.
• Lets discuss what happens even when expectations
  seem very clear.

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Impact

• When Employees stay safe and healthy
• better quality of work outcomes (patient
  outcomes!).
• higher productivity.
• lower workers compensation costs.
• fewer injuries/illnesses that require
• time off, replacement employees, and
  overtime.
• reduced medical expenses.
• overall, more satisfied employees.

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Impact

• For the individual employee
• Take home a paycheck.
• Stay healthy.
• Enjoy their work, the residents, and their
  colleagues.

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Major Impact on Resident Care
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Ask everyone to find this poster and read it!
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Connect all of the content to long term care
settings.

• The standards are very relevant, for example
• Hazardous substances, cleaning
  materials, solutions, etc.
• Personal protective equipment
  gloves, gowns, etc.
• Work surfaces counters, cabinets,
  etc.
• Walking surfaces spills on the
  floors, loose tiles, etc.
• Lifting and moving.
• Fire Protection and Fire Prevention

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Remind all workersThis content applies to their
work!

• The safety and health of employees is critical to
  resident safety and the success of any
  organization.
• Focus of OSHA is helping employers to create and
  sustain safe and healthy environments and protect
  employees from hazardous materials and
  situations.
• All workers in long term care settings need to be
  involved in sustaining a safe and healthy work
  environment!

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Engaging everyone is not easy.

• Careful use of terminology that everyone can
  understand.
• Use of examples from your work setting to
  emphasize a point/content piece.
• Have participants share their examples.
• Keep it short, make it fun, use a variety of
  teaching techniques to keep people interested!

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Questions?

• Suggestions or Comments?