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1. Comply with the California Occupational Safety and Health Standards Board’s “Emergency Regulation to Minimize Needlestick Injuries.” For example, draft regulations in California require:
   • written exposure control plans that are revised from time to time
   • reporting of incidents and maintenance of a sharps injury log
   • an expanded definition of engineering controls (i.e., safe needle technology)
2. Address the issue of accidental needlesticks in the health care workplace; and comply with existing and expected state and federal safe needle regulations
3. Obtain statistically significant reductions in needlestick injury exposure within the first year of implementation
4. Continuously improve needlestick incident rates over the next five years

Other Measurable Achievements

Depending on your level of commitment to this process, the proven skills that you learn can be transferred organization-wide and result in measurable achievements, such as:

• Lowering overall incident rates
• Lowering Workers’ Compensation costs
• Lowering absenteeism rates
• Improving communications throughout the organization
• Improving the working relationships between labor and management
• Increasing the willingness of employees to become active in other initiatives
• Improving teamwork
• Improving the quality of the work done
• Improving morale

Biomedical Disposal, Inc. will work with you and assist in the development and implementation of a NICS_x^® process specifically adapted to meet your needs. We will help you to significantly reduce needlestick incidents and to conform to existing and expected laws and regulations. While adapting to the demands of your individual organization, using the NICS_x^® system, Biomedical Disposal, Inc. attacks the problem by applying experiences from successful implementation of behavior-based safety management from other industries:

Training and implementation of NICS_x^® will help you establish a system specifically designed to obtain the optimal results from your engineering controls. Fully implementing NICS_x^® will also help to identify new opportunities for behavioral change, management development, and innovative engineering to continuously reduce exposure to needlesticks, which seriously threaten health care workers.

A. IDENTIFY: Identifying and defining the standards for safe performance

• Identifies and defines performance expectations – the ones that if performed correctly will reduce the exposure to injury
• Develops a data-gathering tool or mechanism
• Trains guidance committee and site leadership
• Develops strategies for managing resistance
• Provides a foundation for continuous improvement in delivery of healthcare

B. MEASURE: Monitoring behavior and gathering performance data

• Measures PERFORMANCE – what people do can be measured directly; attitudes cannot
• Sets up an atmosphere for the exchange of information on the root causes of the observed behaviors
• Allocates resources rationally and efficiently
• Documents performance improvement

C. CONTROL: Providing reinforcement and guidance to reduce performance variability

• Triggers improved performance (addresses enabled behaviors – those that are under the control of the individual performing the work)
• Enhances the understanding of the need for change
• Triggers positive cultural change
• Captures information on the obstacles and barriers to improved performance

Note: Feedback against a standard is one of the most effective ways to change behavior. Without immediate, verbal feedback, a tremendous opportunity to improve performance is lost.

• Evaluates and analyzes data
• Addresses Type II and Type III behaviors (those where it is difficult or impossible to maintain the standard of performance identified in "A")
• Proactively measures and treats upstream performance (before an incident occurs)
• Provides the means to achieve continuous improvement
  

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