Monitoring Tools for Compliance Plans
COMPLIANCE PLANS 9
Procedures for Compliance Plans on Hygiene and Use of Fire Extinguisher
At Nazarene Healthcare Facility
Author Note
This paper is being submitted on January 05, 2017
Procedures for Compliance Plans on Hygiene and Use of Fire Extinguisher
At Nazareth Healthcare Facility
Introduction
Nazareth Healthcare Centre prides itself on the values that have acted as cornerstones for it long-time success story. It is these values that have helped in shaping a setting and cultural backgrounds that work in nurturing the highest standards, ethics, and personal integrity in the institution. Therefore, the organization works at reaching an exemplary level in corporate citizenship, that which is a benchmark within the healthcare. As a result, it is imperative for the organization to adhere to the following noted guidelines. Therefore, to ensure that Nazareth Hospital continues with providing the best care to its consumers, then there is a necessity for Hospital’s clinical members of staff to wash their hands as they attain to their patients and also possesses good technical abilities of using the fire extinguisher.
Compliance Plan on Hands Hygiene
To commence with, practising proper hand hygiene is a vital step at any workplace, regardless of the industry. However, the major area where hygiene is mostly needed is the healthcare industry. This compliance plan is mainly purposed to show the significance of hygiene in medical personnel. Washing of hands before attending to the patients prevent the spread of bacteria from one patient to the other. This can be prevented by the health personnel's washing their hands anytime they are visiting the patients. This practice is not only imperative to the patients, but to the personnel's health too.
All employees are encouraged to subject the compliance function to an independent evaluation. The terms is incorporated according to the health infection control practice advisory committee (HICPAC) guidelines on the patients and the facility hygiene At all times, all of the employees should uphold highly the principles that guide the hygienic standards of the health facility. With this said, a compliance plan would assist our office with following the recommendations of the Healthcare Infection Control Practices Advisory Committee, along with the HICPA/SHEA/APIC/IDSA Hand Hygiene Task Force and the CDC to ensure all employees are properly trained in hand hygiene and the importance (Boyce, J.M., Pittet, D., 2002).
The organizational employees are also called upon to showcase faithfulness and with great discipline ensure that they respect the various rules and regulations regarding the organization hygiene and that of the various health facilities across the hospital. Both internal and external auditors do the auditing in Nazareth hospital. Further, it is expected that their work will be done with the greatest of transparency possible and to ensure that the financial department works in great integrity. Further, there should be correspondence between the works done by the two auditors.
Monitoring of the compliance has been assigned to various organizational members. Those who have been newly recruited into the organization will be taken through education about compliance in laws and regulation. To ensure that this comes to pass, the orientation phase of the new employees will entail incorporating training on the same. The hospital highly values intellectuality and access to important information. This is one of the major reasons as to why it advocates for training of its new employees on the necessity of compliance with the necessity of adhering to the hygiene of the both the hospital and its patients.
The completion of the orientation will be marked with hands on training in the proper techniques of hand washing, along with visuals aids. The organization also anticipates to hold frequent campaigns involving posters and numerous other items posted across the hospital to help with creating awareness among the employees and patients alike on the advantages that are associated with washing of hands. In terms of discipline, any employee irrespective of the position held is a subject to Nazareth discipline including termination. All employees have the sole mandate to report perceived misconduct in hygiene (Wayani, 2014).
Compliance Plan on Use of Fire Extinguishers
On the same note, the compliance department wishes to sensitize the Nazareth hospital employees on the use of a fire extinguisher. This compliance program aims at enhancing sound practices to ensure the protection of our facility. It is imperative for employees to have knowledge in use of an extinguisher. This is because the risk of fire outbreak can be anywhere in the facility.
The last few years have seen some of the worst fire accidents in the history of the business world hence the necessity of having the organizational employees possessing technical know-how of dealing with this menace. Fire can strike at any time and can be caused with the slightest of incidences like power surge in the electrical systems in the hospital. Therefore, there is an urgency of having all of the employees conversant with the way of handling the most readily available tools in the fire extinguisher.
Hence, this compliance program overview is vital for the management to ensure the enactment of the program. This is because, the program will not only help with ensuring the safety of the organizational employees, and the premises, but it will save the hospital of millions of dollars in terms of potential damages in case of a fire breakout. All employees should subject the compliance function to an independent evaluation.
It therefore be understood that, regardless of whether the employee has just been newly brought into the organization or has been with it for years, there is a needed urgency for all to adhere to the requirements of the compliance plan. The terms in this paper should be incorporated with respect to the following. The OSHA statue, 29CFR1910.57 requires the employees within an organization, to be exclusively trained on the use of fire extinguishers (Quinn, Bureau of National Affairs (Arlington, Va.), & Bloomberg BNA, 2014).
The employees to the hospital should be sober and known that none of the compliance policies were made just for the sake but in accordance with the state, local, and federal governmental laws. The hospital has one of the greatest workable financial institutions and departments. The internal auditors and the external auditors do auditing in Nazareth hospital. This is to ensure accountability of the functions in the facility. The work of the auditors is expected to be carried out with the greatest transparency possible and to ensure that integrity is upheld with all of the holders of various office posts across the financial departments of the hospitals.
Selected personnel who will ensure the compliance of the extinguishers training will do the monitoring of the compliance. At the same time, the new employees will receive the extinguishers training in an orientation in their first days through hands on training, along with power points detailing the proper techniques. The new employees will be taught on the locations of the fire extinguishers and how they can easily access them in the case of an emergency. In conclusion, all of the employees at Nazareth hospital are urged on the necessity of adhering to the compliance plans and policies and should put to use all of the techniques they are taught during orientation.
In conclusion, another area that is important to have compliance with is proper training of the employees of the use of fire extinguishers. This too can occur within any working field and the employees should be made aware of the proper use of the equipment and which equipment is used for each type of fire to ensure a safe work environment.
According to the statute OSHA 29 CFR 1910.157 (g) requires all employees to be trained in the use of fire extinguishers annually. For some of our employees to have a lack of knowledge within this area, we need to develop a compliance plan to ensure we are maintaining proper OSHA requirements, and to ensure the safety of all involved (O’Donnell, R., 2013).
References
Boyce, J.M., Pittet, D. (2002). Guidelines for Hand Hygiene in Healthcare Settings.
Retrieved from, https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/PreviewMmwrhtml/rr5116a1.htm
O’Donnell, R. (2013). Fire Extinguisher Training: Best Practices.
Retrieved from. https://ohsonline.com/articles/2013/10/01/fire-extinguisher-training-best-practices.aspx
Quinn, J. M., Bureau of National Affairs (Arlington, Va.), & Bloomberg BNA. (2014). Corporate compliance: Building a world-class borderless ethics compliance program. Arlington, VA: Bureau of National Affairs. Retrieved from, http://www.worldcat.org/title/corporate-compliance-building-a-world-class-borderless-ethics-compliance-program/oclc/887206956
Wayani, R. (2014). Microsoft System Center 2012 R2: IT GRC Compliance Program Key Concepts. Retrieved from, https://www.knowledgenet.com/online-training/courses/microsoft-system-center-2012-r2-%C2%96-monitor-and-operate-compliance/
