Comply with Me: Take Your Infection Control and OSHA Training to New Heights

Comply with Me: Take OSHA and

Infection Control to New Heights

Karen K. Daw, MBA, CECM

Karen Daw is an award-winning national speaker, author, and Authorized OSHA Trainer. She earned her BA from the Ohio State University and her MBA with concentrations in Healthcare Administration and Business Management. Karen was recruited from the Emergency Department to the OSU College of Dentistry as the Safety Director based on her expertise.

In fact, the CDC, OSAP, and dental manufacturers have benefited from Karen’s experience. She now coaches practices across the country live and via Zoom with a “This is going to be so much fun!” approach. You are invited to sit back, relax, and let Karen guide you through a fun and information-packed safety update.

In her high energy presentations, Karen Daw, MBA, CECM, "The OSHA Lady™" infuses hands-on activities, exercises, fun stories and both dental and medical specific examples from her 20+ years’ experience as a speaker, consultant, and authorized OSHA trainer. From the 2-person practice to 1,000-person audiences, Karen helps healthcare professionals enhance their safety and compliance systems.

Course Date: Oct 08, 2025

Course Time: 8:00 a.m. – 10:15 a.m. EST

Delivery Method: Zoom

Cost: (2 CE Credits – $50.00 pp)

Description:

Description:

Complacency is the enemy in infection control and safety; Karen's in-depth, informative workshops put principle into practice by taking an unexpected, engaging approach to compliance training topics like: personal protective equipment, disinfection, and appropriate barriers for bloodborne, contact, droplet, and airborne pathogens. So, leave the OSHA and CDC binders on their shelves for a little while, and let Karen guide your team through an entertaining, interactive, and potentially life-saving refresher course exclusively tailored for those working in healthcare.

Is there anything this good safety training can’t do? Does it: Fulfill the annual OSHA training requirement? Yup! Give CE credit for Infection Control? Totally! Protect the team? So safe! Breathe freshness into your compliance program? Like cotton sheets drying in a mountain breeze! And if you need more convincing, you’ll leave with the tools to keep your safety program humming like a finely tuned sports car.

Even if you think you’ve heard it all before, you’ve never heard it the way Ms. Daw, “The OSHA Lady,” delivers safety training for dental professionals. With a fresh, fun, and efficient approach, Ms. Daw will keep things moving, always grounded in real-world examples of what can go wrong (sometimes in a matter of seconds) if you let your guard down. So leave the OSHA and CDC blinders on the shelf for a little while, and let Ms. Daw guide your team through an entertaining, interactive, and potentially life-saving course exclusively tailored for dental healthcare professionals

Learning Objectives:

Learning Objectives:

Participants will be able to:

-Discuss key standards and recommendations from OSHA and the CDC that will keep your dental office up to date on the latest guidelines and requirements.

- Understand federal laws and guidance regarding infection control and prevention for dental practices in the era of COVID and beyond

- Fulfill your OSHA training on this day with the entire practice in attendance.

- Illuminate the role of the infection control coordinator

- Review checklists and resources to streamline procedures, reduce liability, and enhance safety for the well-being of team members, patients, and the practice.

- Describe the review requirements for the Exposure Control Plan

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