SafeLink Webinars

Budget constraints keeping you from having a consultant onsite?
Too busy to attend off-site trainings at inconvenient locations?
If so, then SafeLink Webinars may make the most sense for you.

• Take a SafeLink Webinar from where ever you want.
• All you need is a computer, internet access, and a phone.
• Educational training provided from the industry's top national experts.
• Need-to-know topics cover OSHA and FDA for dental labs and practices.
• One-hour Documented Scientific Credit provided for each Webinar.
• Affordable pricing at $59 per webinar (per CDT) or prepay for 3 or more at $50 each.

SafeLink Consulting's online training sessions allow the Quality Management Representative, Safety Coordinator, or Manager/Owner to receive guidance on regulatory subjects without leaving your office.  Look at the titles below to see what we're offering in 2010.  Call us or register online by completing the Regstration form below.  We'll sign you up and get you started toward compliance.  Each webinar is a one hour live presentation and only requires a computer with internet connection and access to a phone for audio (or you can use your computer's speakers, if available).  These webinars are also a great supplement to our DIY Safety and Quality Programs on CD.

Contact Us to register for upcoming webinars or call 1.800.330.6003 or complete the webinar registration form and email or fax to us.

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 2010 Webinar Schedule:

Regulatory Compliance Training Webinars

An Affordable Alternative for Dental Educational Training

Our mission is to help companies comply with regulations that better their business. Now more than ever we know that businesses are closely monitoring what they are spending. This is why we now offer online webinars as an economical way to achieve your employee training goals.

Your entire team can benefit from attending SafeLink Webinars. Your Training Coordinator and Quality Representative will be better prepared to administer your regulatory compliance programs. Your CDT's will be able to obtain their annual continuing education requirements. Your Safety Coordinator can get assistance with new employee training requirements. Your other team members can obtain job specific training. You can receive assistance if your lab is working toward DAMAS certification. We can also provide private training webinars for your entire team.

Webinar Courses offered:

Continuing educational credits are provided for all webinars.

Introduction to FDA's Title 21
Description: FDA requires that all dental labs implement a Quality Management System. The webinar will present an overview of the law, what you must do to comply, who must register with FDA, what QS/GMP's are and how implementing them will not only make your lab compliant with the law, but also more productive and profitable.
Who Should Attend: Lab Owners, Dept Managers, Quality Control Staff, CDT's

FDA - Basics of an Internal Audit
Description: This webinar is intended for those individuals who are responsible for auditing the Quality System whether it's DAMAS or FDA's Quality System Regulation. A general overview of the Quality System will be addressed; therefore, it also provides a basic knowledge of the DAMAS specifications and the FDA's Quality System/Good Manufacturing Practices. This information applies to auditing any type of quality system. The course will cover purpose and scope of an audit; formation of the audit team; types of audits; requirements under DAMAS, ISO, and FDA audits; and components of the audit.
Who Should Attend: Quality/management Representatives, individuals in the lab designated to perform audits, lab owners, lab managers/supervisors, CDT's
 

FDA - Documenting the Internal Audit
Description: This webinar is intended for individuals who are repsonsible for performing the audit and then either participating in or writing up the Audit Report. This information applies to auditing any type of quality system. The course will cover setting and documenting the audit scheme; logistics of the audit with the audit team; format of the audit investigation; format of the audit report; response to nonconformances in the audit report; and agenda for management review meeting.
Who Should Attend: Quality/Management Representatives, Indivduals in the designated to perform audits, Lab Owners, Lab Managers/Supervisors
 

FDA - Components of an Internal Audit I
Description: This webinar is intended for those individuals who are responsible for performing the audit or participating in components of the audit. It will also be helpful for department managers to understand what the auditors are looking for. This course will cover part of the components of the Quality System and the following course II will complete the components. The topics covered in this section are management system, conformity policy, general-legal, documented review/receiving, patient contact materials - purchasing, process controls, and training.
Who Should Attend: Quality/management representatives, individuals in the lab designated to perform audits, lab owners, managers/supervisors
 

FDA - Components of an Internal Audit II
Description: This webinar is intended for those individuals who are responsible for performing the audit or participating in components of the audit. It will also be helpful for department managers to understand what the auditors are looking for. This course will cover the components of the Quality System that were not covered in course I. The topics covered in this section are equipment maintenance/calibration, cleanliness, documented review of final product, packaging/labeling, control of records, and complaints/CAPA.
Who Should Attend: Quality/Management Representative, individuals in the lab designated to perform audits, Lab Owners, Managers/supervisors
 

FDA - Patient Contact Materials/Purchasing Controls
Description: Learn how to properly document your vendor and subcontractor selection, evaluation, and approval process. Also, tracing patient contact materials and materials critical to the manufacturing process will be discussed.
Who Should Attend: Quality Control Reps, Lab Mgrs, Owners
 

FDA - Document Control and Record Retention
Description: Covers which documents used in your processes need to be controlled through your Quality System. Also, the period of time for retention of quality records and methods used for retention will be covered.
Who Should Attend: Quality Control Reps, Lab Mgrs, Owners
 

FDA - Corrective Action/Preventive Action/Complaints
Description: Learn how to track complaints that you have of vendors and suppliers and those also called in by your clients. Learn what actions to take to correct and prevent re-occurrence.
Who Should Attend: Quality Control Reps, Lab Mgrs, Owners
 

FDA - Documenting FDA's Facility Requirements 
Description: Learn how to properly document your compliance with FDA's facility requirements.  FDA's Quality System requires that dental devices are manufactured in a clean environment, utilizing well maintained equipment.  This webinar will not only show you how to produce the required documents that demonstrate compliance, but how compliance benefits your bottom line.  Better maintained equipment requires fewer repairs, performs longer and more efficiently therefore reducing the cost of doing business.  A clean facility is more conducive to higher employee morale, improved production, and reduces the potential for contamination of the product.  Who Should Attend: Quality Control Reps, Lab Mgrs, Owners
 

FDA - Establishing Critical Components of Your Quality System - Employee Training/Final Inspection/Packaging & Labeling
Description: This educational webinar discusses some of the most critical components of a Quality System to establish compliance.  FDA requires that dental laboratories provide evidence that employees are properly trained for the tasks that they perform, that their skill levels and all training are documented, and that any employee who is performing final quality control is knowledgeable enough to perform this evidence to FDA.  We will also discuss the documented final quality control requirement, how it is performed, and documented.  We will talk about proper packaging of the product and the specific labeling requirements for distribution of the product.  This webinar will teach you the proper way to establish and document all of these crucial components.  Who Should Attend: Quality Control Reps, Lab Mgrs, Owners
 

FDA - Q & A Forum
Description: This is a question and answer time on any area in which the attendee needs specific help or understanding of the Quality System requirements and implementation. Attendees can share their experiences, problems, and successes.
Who Should Attend: Quality Control Reps, Lab Mgrs, Owners
 

FDA - Agenda for Management Review Meeting
Description: Attendees will learn when meetings must occur, who must attend, and how to document the meeting. Specific items which must be included in the agenda for the meeting will be described as well as what kinds of discussions should take place.
Who Should Attend: Quality Control Reps, Lab Mgrs, Owners
 

OSH - New Employee Safety Orientation
Description: This webinar covers all of the required basic training needed for a new dental lab employee per OSHA standards. OSHA requires employers to train all new hires on how to work safely and protect themselves from job-specific hazards.  New hire training must include prevention of exposure to chemicals, bloodborne pathogens, and other environmental and mechanical hazards.  This should precede lab-specific training.  SafeLink's webinar will lay the foundation for your new hires to recognize the most common safety and health hazards in the dental lab.  From this you will need to provide your lab's safety procedures to complete the training and document it.  Who Should Attend: Newly hired lab employees, CDT's, safey coordinators, training coordinators, supervisors, managers
 

OSH - Safety Basics for the Dental Practice
Description: This one hour session covers all of the basic programs that every dental office should have in place to be OSHA compliant. Specific safety program information must be covered by the practice's in-house training/safety coordinator to ensure full compliance to standards.
Who should attend:  Training/Safety coordinators, new employees
 

OSH - Infection Control in the Dental Lab
Description: Compliance with OSHA's Bloodborne Pathogen Exposure Prevention Standard including: written requirements for the dental lab, training requirements, safe practices, personal protective equipment, engineering controls, Hep B vaccine, and post-exposure management.
Who Should Attend: CDT's, safety coordinators, training coordinators, supervisors, managers

OSH - Handling Hazardous Materials Safely
Description: Compliance with OSHA's Hazard Communication Standard including: MSDS, labeling, inventorying, storage, use and emergency precautions for hazardous materials safety in the lab. Also, documentation and training requirements will be covered.
Who Should Attend: Safety coordinators, training coordinators, CDT's, supervisors, managers

OSH - Emergency Preparedness & Fire Prevention
Description: How to prepare your lab and its employees to respond to various emergency situations that may occur including severe weather, fire, chemical spill, physical violence, bomb threats and more.
Who Should Attend: Safety coordinators, training coordinators, CDT's, supervisors, managers

OSH - Controlling Hazardous Energy in the Dental Lab
Description: This webinar explains the types of electrical and mechanical safety hazards present in a typical dental lab and the recommended controls you should have in place for each.  Also covered will be the requirements stated under OSHA's Lockout/Tagout program including training requirements as well as a written program.
Who Should Attend: Safety coordinators, training coordinators, CDT's, supervisors, managers

OSH - Suit Up for Safety - Your PPE Program
Description: Learn what OSHA requires employers to do for their Personal Protective Equipment Program. Included will be how to assess the workplace for hazards and put in proper controls.
Who Should Attend: Safety coordinators, training coordinators, CDT's supervisors, managers

Call SafeLink Consulting for a complete list of upcoming webinars or to schedule your own personalized office staff webinar.