OSHA Compliance Considerations for Today’s Pharmacy

Provisions for workplace safety can easily be taken for granted after decades of continual integration of OSHA best practices in the workplace. And, professionally, we have made huge strides in ensuring worker safety in today’s pharmacies. Still, common problematic areas periodically surface as potential violations for pharmacy employers. Whether it be through the Hazard Communications Standards or through the Bloodborne Pathogen Standards or simply through more general OSHA expectations, every pharmacy employer must provide very specific safety provisions to its employees. This session seeks to examine some of the more common OSHA standards applicable to the contemporary practice of pharmacy.