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Common Misconceptions About OSHA Recordkeeping - Webinar By ComplianceOnline

Fri, 25 May 2012 09:15:32 +0000

Start: 07/13/2012 10:00 am

End: 07/13/2012 12:00 pm

Timezone: America/Chicago

This 2-hour OSHA injury and illness recordkeeping training will teach you how OSHA analyzes recordkeeping scenarios by focusing on those concepts and rules that are most commonly misunderstood by recordkeepers and their bosses

Why Should You Attend:

OSHA injury and illness recordkeeping remains a point of emphasis and a focus of enforcement for OSHA. Although the rules have been in effect since 2002, employers continue to struggle to understand how to apply the rules. Record keepers and their bosses tend to try to apply common sense or Workers’ Compensation rules which result in a misunderstanding of how OSHA interprets its recordkeeping rules.

In this 2-hour webinar, we will help you understand the OSHA recordkeeping analysis and show how you can avoid the pitfalls that lead to citations. This will by achieved by focusing on the recordkeeping concepts that are most frequently misunderstood.

Areas Covered in the Seminar:

What does OSHA mean by “work-related”?
Employee does not have to be engaged in work activities.
Employee fault does not matter.
Employee was not on the clock.
Employee waited too long to report.
No one witnessed the accident.
“This could have happened anywhere.”
Effect of failed drug tests.
What does OSHA mean by “significant aggravation”?

OSHA Record Keeping Compliance - Webinar By ComplianceOnline

Fri, 25 May 2012 09:09:55 +0000

Start: 06/29/2012 10:00 am

End: 06/29/2012 11:00 am

Timezone: America/Chicago

This OSHA Recordkeeping training will cover critical aspects of OSHA recordkeeping and its requirements, to be compliant with OSHA regulations.

Why Should You Attend:

Those responsible for maintaining filling out and recording injuries and illnesses are often confused by what should and should not be included in the OSHA recordkeeping forms. Over-reporting injuries and illnesses can be as serious as under-reporting injuries and illnesses, and can even lead to uncomfortable OSHA inquiries or even inspections. It is also difficult to know how to accurately account for time lost due to injuries and illnesses, especially in the case of a part-time work force. This webinar will help clarify what should be reported as an injury or illness, as well as how to account correctly for lost work time.

Many employers are also confused by which forms should be used to initially report injuries and illness, and those that should be used for submission to OSHA or the proper reporting agency. This session will discuss these and in addition, suggestions will be offered for maintaining confidentiality of the OSHA Injury and Illness data.

Areas Covered in the Seminar:

This seminar will help those tasked with filling out and maintaining OSHA Injury and Illness logs in the following:

Criteria to use in determining whether and injury or illness should be reported on the OSHA Log.
Understand the purpose of the OSHA Injury and Illness logs and forms.
How to calculate lost work days?
Techniques to assure that the information contained in the logs remains confidential.
How to calculate injury and illness rates for their workplace?

The Control of Hazardous Energy (LOTO - Lockout/Tag-out) - OSHA 1910.147 - Webinar By ComplianceOnline

Fri, 25 May 2012 09:04:30 +0000

Start: 06/12/2012 10:00 am

End: 06/12/2012 10:00 am

Timezone: America/Chicago

This webinar will help you understand OSHA’s requirements for preventing accidental release of energy or accidental start-up of equipment. You will learn what documents to have in place, including a written lockout/tagout plan, and how to implement it.

Why Should You Attend:

Due to the significant number of fatalities, injuries, fires, spills/releases, and “near misses” in manufacturing, OSHA requires procedures for isolating energy sources and equipment startup. Due to unauthorized persons trespassing or accidentally accessing the area and multiple employers working on these projects they are a significant target for lawsuits for accidental releases of energy or startups. Plaintiff attorneys target the failure of parties responsible for isolating energy sources and controls. Unfortunately, in most cases defendants were not aware of the OSHA requirements until it is too late. In 2011 lockout/tagout ranked 5th in the most common OSHA citation with 3,756 violations.

Learning Objectives:

Understand OSHA's lockout/tagout requirements.
There is more to hazardous energy control that locking out breakers.
Know what documents to have in place.
Reduce risk of unplanned equipment startups or energy releases.

Developing and Updating a “Compliant” Lab Compliance Plan (Medicare and Medicaid Focus) - Webinar By ComplianceOnline

Fri, 25 May 2012 08:57:52 +0000

Start: 06/25/2012 10:00 am

End: 06/25/2012 11:00 am

Timezone: America/Chicago

This webinar provides an easy to follow outline for developing and updating the required HHS Laboratory Compliance Plan for any provider who bills Medicare or Medicaid for services.

Why Should You Attend:

With the enactment of PPACA in 2010, Compliance Plans are now mandatory for all providers who bill Medicare and Medicaid for their services. Each provider covered by PPACA, must develop and implement a Compliance Program “appropriate to its characteristics”. This legislation is being enforced by the Office of Inspector General, OIG, within Health and Human Services, or HHS, Department.

This session provides an easy to follow outline for developing and updating the required HHS Laboratory Compliance Plan. Since the OIG has a zero tolerance policy for fraud and abuse, it is imperative that Laboratory Management and Administrators responsible for the Laboratory are knowledgeable about, and actively working toward maintaining compliance with the elements of the OIG Lab Model.

We will discuss required documents, staff training, audits, and helpful websites, to provide examples that each attendee may use to fulfill and update their Compliance Plan. In addition, we will identify future changes to regulations, and provide suggestions on ways to stay in compliance.

Areas Covered in the Seminar:

PPACA Legislation of 2010.
Required Elements of the Compliance Plan.
Definition of Medical Necessity.
Disciplinary and corrective action related to breach of the Compliance Plan.
Examples of documents, reviews and audits to maintain compliance.
Ongoing review of changes to regulations.
Investigate ways to update the Compliance Plan.
Websites available for information.

Good Laboratory Practices for Bioanalytical Laboratories - Webinar By ComplianceOnline

Fri, 25 May 2012 08:52:30 +0000

Start: 06/21/2012 10:00 am

End: 06/21/2012 11:30 am

Timezone: America/Chicago

This 90-minute webinar will help you to develop a sound bioanalytical process to ensure quality data. It will cover techniques for bioanalytical data management for the purpose of assuring a regulatory agency that the data have been collected, managed, and archived to the highest standards of quality assurance. You will understand the aspects of bioanalysis that can be run according to GLPs and the aspects in which GLPs do not apply.

Why Should You Attend:

FDA does not currently have detailed regulations covering bioanalytical assays on samples from human clinical trials. To assure a minimum level of data quality, integrity, and accuracy, bioanalytical labs have adopted applicable portions of the GLP regulations. Understanding this, FDA has published several guidances in the past decade to address specific challenges in doing bioanalytical work according to GLP requirements. This presentation covers the current best practices for adapting GLPs to bioanalytical studies. It highlights specific examples where GLPs are not appropriate and emphasizes special situations in bioanalytical work where FDA's requirements are very strict, such as method and equipment validation and electronic data collection.

Areas Covered in the Seminar:

What are the bioanalytical assays adaptable to GLPs
What are the types of bioanalytical samples
What are test practices in sample management
How to manage special considerations in bioanalytical samples for matrixes, interactions, stability, etc.
What are the requirements for method and equipment validation
How to manage and archive electronic bioanalytical data
How to identify high-risk steps and establish corrective actions
How to self-audit your bioanalytical process

Test Article Management and Characterization for Drugs and Devices

Fri, 25 May 2012 08:46:06 +0000

Start: 06/08/2012 10:00 am

End: 06/08/2012 11:30 am

Timezone: America/Chicago

This 90-minute webinar will clarify your confusion about Test Article Characterization for GLP drug studies. You will learn the correct way to use GMP characterization data in a GLP study, understand how to characterize a medical device as a test article, learn the common mistakes made in test article characterization and the basic requirements for drug and device stability testing.

Why Should You Attend:

The presentation will begin with a review of GLP requirements for test and control article characterization, regardless of whether the article is a drug or device. It will address the study director's responsibilities and sponsor responsibilities in test article characterization. Attendees will learn the best practices for managing GMP characterizations, stability, and certificates of analysis. Special attention is given to the testing that must be performed to show that no test material carried over into control materials. Carryover has become one of FDA’s target areas in recent years because of the serious effect it has on drug safety results. The presentation treats carryover as a special topic in test article/control article characterization. The presenter also emphasizes the importance of control article characterization.

The presentation then covers the unique aspects of medical device characterization and stability testing. This discussion describes how device design planning and development fit into characterization. The webinar also covers combination products, how to identify what makes up the test article, and then the testing to show stability and characterization. This section is followed by a discussion of stability testing in general as it applies to characterization.

Areas Covered in the Seminar:

What are the recommended procedures for chemical and physical characterization of drugs/devices in safety testing.
What are the basic requirements of test article characterization.
How to manage carry-over from test to control article
How to use GMP test article characterization and the certificate of analysis for a GLP study
How to define a device test article
How to characterizing medical devices
Stability testing for drugs and devices
How to document test article usage and distribution

HIPAA and EHRs: How to Comply with the New Regulations and What to Ask of your Vendor

Fri, 25 May 2012 08:22:18 +0000

Start: 07/26/2012 10:00 am

End: 07/26/2012 11:30 am

Timezone: America/Chicago

This 90-minute webinar will review the new and proposed HIPAA Privacy and Security regulations and discuss their effects on the use of Electronic Health Records (EHRs).

Why Should You Attend:

Many of the new changes to HIPAA focus directly on a number of aspects of the use of electronic records, such as the accounting of disclosures and tracking of accesses of records of all kinds, even for treatment, payment, and healthcare operations, and the provision of records in electronic formats when requested. These proposed rules have a tremendous impact on not only EHRs, but also any electronic systems that hold protected health information in the designated record set.

In this 90-minute webinar we will review the new and expected regulations and discuss their effects on the use of EHRs. We will show what policies need to be changed and how, discuss how disclosures must be tracked in an EHR, review the various ways patient records can be supplied electronically, discuss the requirements for meeting the mandatory Privacy and Security Objective in the Meaningful Use regulations (including requirements for a HIPAA Security Risk Analysis), and show what policies and evidence you need to produce if you are audited by the HHS Office of Civil Rights. The new enforcement penalty structure and the new program for random audits by HHS OCR will also be described.

Agenda:

What is an EHR under the regulations?
New proposed rules for access of electronic records and EHRs
New proposed rules for accounting of disclosures and EHRs
Proposed new restrictions on disclosures and their impacts
Meaningful Use, HIPAA, and EHRs: Risk Analysis Required
Expanded HIPAA Enforcement and Penalties and the new HIPAA Audit Program
Q&A session

Smart Phones and Social Media: New HIPAA Challenges and How to Be Compliant

Fri, 25 May 2012 08:06:21 +0000

Start: 06/12/2012 10:00 am

End: 06/12/2012 11:30 am

Timezone: America/Chicago

This 90-minute webinar will discuss the requirements, the risks, and the issues in using mobile devices and social networking for patient communications. We will review policies and procedures, documentation, major compliance areas and training to ensure they are updated to meet these new challenges.

Why Should You Attend:

Most HIPAA covered entities now face difficult choices as mobile devices such as smart phones and tablets proliferate and become the standard for personal communications both by providers and their patients, and social networking sites become a preferred means of communication for many. Have you updated your information security risk analysis or policies and procedures to address the increasing use of mobile devices and social networking for patient communications? If not, you run the risk of breaches, rule violations, and fines in the event of mishandling of PHI using these new technologies.

With the new HIPAA random audit program now getting under way, and increases in enforcement actions following breaches, now is the time to ensure your organization is in compliance with the regulations and meeting the communication needs and desires of its providers and patients. You need the proper privacy protections for health information, and the necessary documented policies and procedures, as well as documentation of any actions taken pursuant to your policies and procedures. Your policies and procedures will probably need major revisions to maintain compliance in areas such as individual access of records, accounting of disclosures, and breach notification. And, of course, you will need to train your staff in all the new policies and procedures.

Learning Objectives:

Find out the ways that patients want to use their mobile technology and social networking to communicate with providers, and the ways providers want to use those technologies to enable better patient care.
Learn what are the risks of using mobile technology and social networking, what can go wrong, and what can result when it does.
Find out about HIPAA requirements for access and patient preferences, as well as the requirements to protect PHI.
Learn how to use an information security management process to evaluate risks and make decisions about how best to protect PHI and meet patient needs and desires.
Find out what policies and procedures you should have in place for dealing with mobile devices, social networking, and any new technology.
Learn about the training and education that must take place to ensure your staff uses technology properly and does not risk exposure of PHI.
Learn about how the HIPAA audit and enforcement activities are now being increased and what you need to do to survive a HIPAA audit.

Complying with FLSA – How to Determine Exempt Status & Calculate Overtime Correctly

Fri, 25 May 2012 07:55:34 +0000

Start: 06/19/2012 10:00 am

End: 06/19/2012 11:00 am

Timezone: America/Chicago

This webinar on employee overtime calculation will help you understand what is “time worked”, exempt versus non-exempt status and how to calculate your employees' overtime correctly so to avoid these costly suits.
Why Should You Attend:

Overtime lawsuits are on the rise. Employees are getting wiser to their rights under the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) and are realizing that their employers have been incorrectly designating them as exempt and, therefore, have not been paying them overtime they are due. They are also realizing that employers are failing to record “working time” correctly – resulting in significant underpayments to their employees. Additionally, even if the working time is accurately noted, employers failed to calculate overtime obligations correctly. Due to the frequent errors on employers’ part, many employees are grouping together to bring class actions or collective actions under the FLSA – making these suits more costly than ever.

Areas Covered in the Seminar:

What is actual “time worked” under the FLSA.
What is meant by “suffered or permitted” to work?
Exempt versus Nonexempt Status.
Deductions from exempt pay - avoiding the landmines.
Hourly versus Salaried Status.
How to determine FLSA classification of positions.
Problems with "job creep" and "perception of status".
How to calculate working time – including travel time, training time, “donning and doffing and others.
Methods of calculating overtime – salary coefficient, piece rates, blended rates, BELO contracts.
Employee-employer relationship versus independent contractor status.
Suggested policies to administer under FLSA.
Compensatory time off versus pay in lieu of notice.
What to do when you discover that you have made an error.

Common Concerns and Penalties Related to the Americans with Disability Amendments Act (ADAA)

Fri, 25 May 2012 07:48:16 +0000

Start: 06/14/2012 10:00 am

End: 06/14/2012 11:30 am

Timezone: America/Chicago

This 90-minute webinar will help you understand the Americans with Disability Amendments Act (ADAA) requirements, concepts, and broad applicability of the Act. It will answer critical questions address common problems that employers face in implementing the ADAA.

Why Should You Attend:

Many employers think of ADAAA as an obstacle to their business. This webinar will show you how ADAA addresses some of employer concerns that the original ADA did not address, and how implementing the ADA in a way that reflects concerns of the disabled employee and the needs of employers is now easier and more realistic for the workplace.

This presentation will also review an option that clients have found effective when an employee requests accommodation that is beyond the capabilities of the business to offer.

This webinar will answer some of the critical questions that employers face today, and others: How can you tell if you need to offer an employee Reasonable Accommodation? What is Reasonable Accommodation? What are” Essential Duties” of a position? (Do you know it is a legal requirement of ADAAA to identify them?) Where are “Essential Duties” best recorded? What is a “Qualified Applicant with a Disability”? Why is that important? What are the penalties that a business might suffer if they are found to not have properly implemented requirements of ADAA? Who assesses the penalties? What are the chances these requirements will go away?

Learning Objective:

Identify ADAAA requirements, concepts, and broad applicability of the Act.