Package Description

This engaging workbook is designed to help dental health care personnel (DHCP) navigate the essential health and safety considerations established by government guidelines and regulations. Organized into 10 comprehensive courses, each lesson combines clear explanations and references, practical fill-in-the-blank activities tailored to your own office, and interactive group discussions. You’ll reinforce your knowledge with self-assessments at the end of every course—highlighting key points and evaluating your understanding of site-specific procedures.

Whether used for individual study or team meetings, this workbook supports your learning and helps you apply best practices in infection control and workplace safety.

Access the workbook entirely online with interactive, clickable hyperlinks for every reference. This digital-only edition is accessible through your web browser—no downloads, PDF copies, or printed versions are available. Content cannot be saved or printed.

Learning Objectives:

1. Describe how OSHA’s regulations protect dental health care workers from occupational exposure to bloodborne pathogens and hazardous chemicals.
2. Describe the roles and responsibilities of dental team members in infection prevention and control
3. Explain how OSHA regulations and CDC infection prevention and control guidelines are applied in a site-specific dental healthcare setting.
4. Differentiate regulations, recommendations, and standards.

Price:

• Members: $120*
• Global Members: $65 
• Non-Members: $190

*Basic Members are not eligible for the member rate.

Continuing Education

ADS is an ADA CERP Recognized Provider.

ADA CERP is a service of the American Dental Association to assist dental professionals in identifying quality providers of continuing dental education. ADA CERP does not approve or endorse individual courses or instructors, nor does it imply acceptance of credit hours by boards of dentistry.

Concerns or complaints about a CE provider may be directed to the provider or to the Commission for Continuing Education Provider Recognition at ADA.org/CERP.

Please email the ADS office at [email protected] or call +1 (410) 571-0003 if you wish to be in contact with the course author/creator(s) with any questions or for clarification of course concepts or for technical assistance in completing the online test.

All participants assume individual responsibility for providing evidence of contact hours of continuing education to the appropriate authorities and for the maintenance of their individual records.

Learn more about our CE Program & Provider Recognition.

CE Credits: 10.0
Educational Method: Self-instructional (self-study)
Location: Online
Original Release Date: June 1999
Review Date: June 2025 
Expiration Date: June 30, 2028

2025 Content Review Team

Eve Cuny, MS, CDIPC
University of the Pacific Arthur A. Dugoni School of Dentistry
Disclosures: No relevant financial relationships to disclose

Kandis Garland, RDH, MS, DHSc, CDIPC 
College of Eastern Idaho
Disclosures: No relevant financial relationships to disclose

Shannon E. Mills, DDS
Shannon E Mills DDS, Oral Healthcare Consulting
Disclosures: No relevant financial relationships to disclose

Joyce A. Moore, BSDH, RDH, CRCST, CDIPC, DISIPC
Disclosures: No relevant financial relationships to disclose

Ashley Quackenbush, MPH, CHES
Association for Dental Safety
Disclosures: No relevant financial relationships to disclose

Refund & Cancellation

This digital-only workbook is non-refundable. Click here to view the complete Product Agreement.