Risky business

Robert Kelly untangles the complexities of waste and dangerous goods management

Some things are not for sharing

Shilla Talati considers this – and other dos and don'ts when it comes to hand hygiene

Dirty sinks – clarity and waste

Rebecca Waters looks at the guidance on waste dental amalgam from the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) – and considers the impact it will have on you and your dental practice

Sterilisation – the tricks of the trade

Sterilisation is highly regulated with not much room for interpretation. Edyta Bednarz explains why

Protection when under attack

We get under the skin of work-related contact dermatitis – the most common form of skin disease in the dental team

Because you're worth it…

Whether you're a small, standalone dental surgery or part of a large franchise, the issue of infection control carries more weight than ever when it comes to the safety and reputation of your practice

The elephant in the room?

As a dental professional, you need to walk a safe path, juggling patient safety with practice efficiency. Mark Beckwith discusses the need to be compliant with today's infection control

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Is your practice taking care of you?

When the headlines scream ‘Dental patients at risk’

The topic of infection control has drawn a bit of a media circus of late, thanks partly to a few newsworthy breaches in dental practices and the Zika virus. Here, Rebecca Waters asks if your standards are high enough

Don't be a fool!

This April, is your practice ready for new regulations?

Well-meaning but ill-judged?

Risk assessments in dentistry

As part of the Health and Safety at Work Regulations 1999, all employers are required to assess the risks to those in the workplace and any others who may be affected.

Infection prevention and control – the key to patient safety

Richard Griffith discusses the duties of dental care professionals (DCPs) to ensure patients benefit from proper infection prevention and control procedures, and highlights the sanctions that DCPs may face if they fail to discharge those duties

Changes to the Care Quality Commission regulations

In this article, Richard Harris describes what the Care Quality Commission regulations mean and what a practice might expect from an inspection under the new system

The CQC and safeguarding: the impact on dental nurses

Following new legislation, the Care Quality Commission published a statement on its roles and responsibilities for safeguarding children and adults in England. Dave Hancock considers the likely impact on dental nurses