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Safety Committees (Mini Master Course)

Is your safety committee all it could be? Perhaps it's a great time to grab some donuts and coffee, but does it really drive change? Does it really help reduce employee and donor injuries? It could, if you know the secrets of effective blood center safety committees. This five-part course will teach you how to set up and operate an effective safety committee. DeKeitra Fitzgerald, Claims & Safety Manager for Gulf Coast Regional Blood Center, helps you learn how a safety committee can be your most effective risk management tool.

Free

Preventing Nerve Injuries

Nerve injuries can prompt costly liability claims for BCx members. Working in consultation with medical directors, training managers and nurses, we’ve assembled some risk management strategies to consider incorporating into your training program. These methods on preventing nerve injuries may help avoid painful outcomes in the donation process.

Free

Donation Process Safety

No one wants a donor to suffer any type of negative outcome when donating. We’ve assembled these risk management strategies by working with Dr. Yu Wang at Gulf Coast Regional Blood Center to give you some tips on how to handle things when donors seem to be experiencing some kind of adverse reaction of just “Ain’t Doin’ Right.”

Free

Donor Safety

From the basics of staying hydrated to assisting donors down the coach stairs, these risk management ideas are designed to help avoid donor injuries all through the donation process. These training videos will give you ideas on how to teach staff to avoid donor injuries and keep donors from having a poor outcome.

Free

Slips, Trips and Falls

Wet floors and extension cords are just a few of the reasons workers fall on the job. These videos are designed to help you recognize both the physical trip and fall hazards present in most blood centers as well as avoid the behaviors that tend to lead to these kinds of workplace accidents.

Free

3 Point Contact

How many times have you shook your head wondering how someone fell down the stairs of a coach? Well, it’s probably because they didn’t remember to use the “3-point contact” rule. Reinforce this important safety message with these short, engaging videos.

Free

Mobile Drives

All blood centers know that with mobile drives there are a lot of moving parts, and a lot of ways to get injured. These short videos are designed to help employees remember basic safety concepts for keeping safe on a mobile drive in a fun and entertaining way. From setup to “tear down,” these videos will reinforce safe behaviors.

Free

Vehicle Safety

Do you know the proper way to give signals when acting as a spotter? How about teaching people to watch out for deer on the roads? These videos will help you avoid costly vehicle accidents and help reinforce the concepts of safe driving.

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