General Office Required Training: NJ State and Federal

Each Dental Office is responsible to train their staff yearly or prior to initial employment:

OSHA

Employers shall provide employees with effective information and

training on hazardous chemicals in their work area at the time of

their initial assignment, and whenever a new chemical hazard the

employees have not previously been trained about is introduced into

their work area.

Medical Emergency Training

(13:30-8.26 EMERGENCY PROTOCOL) NEW JERSEY Dental Board issued a Ruling mandating all Dental offices to implement this requirement in order to recognize and manage common medical emergencies in the office, training must be done on a yearly basis.

This is the wording from the Dental Board Regulations pertaining to Managing Medical Emergencies training:

13:30-8.26 EMERGENCY PROTOCOL

1. Each dental office, facility, dental clinic, or institution at which there is patient contact, at a minimum, shall:
   1. Have a written protocol for managing medical or dental emergencies;
   2. Have equipment to maintain adult and pediatric airways;
   3. Have an ambu bag (bag-valve-mask resuscitator); and
   4. Ensure that all staff are trained upon hire, and at least annually thereafter, to implement the emergency protocol.