Healthcare Safety Toolkit Library

A guide on Human Trafficking in America's Schools.

Information regarding data privacy, confidentiality and security practices related to students.

A fact sheet providing definitions, training, duties and policing of school resource officers.

Checklist designed to assist ensuring a secure environment.

Security measures implemented to maintain safety in the school setting.

This website offers effective prevention, response and recovery systems including multiple resources on regulations, trainings and a newsletter.

Louisiana has a wealth of professional organizations supporting many aspects of the healthcare arena. Listed are the organizations found in the state of Louisiana.

This section of the toolkit includes multiple links for nationwide public access to numerous regulatory and governmental resources on public health, emergencies, prevention and treatment of disease, standards, regulations, safety, security, accreditation bodies, public assistance, and guidelines.

Raising awareness of how to avoid injuries from needlesticks and sharps is an important step in prevention. Through employee education and visual reminders, your organization can help all employees both understand and prevent needlestick and sharp injures.

Patient education is an important part of ensuring success with the plan of care. Including information on how to handle sharps and needles will help prevent injuries from occurring to patients or others if they are part of the home care plan.

Awareness and evaluation of the types of sharps within your organization and where these sharps are used can be helpful in implementing injury prevention plans.

A worksheet, developed by the CDC, that can help an employer calculate the average cost of a sharp related injury. This type of worksheet can help build a campaign to obtain leadership commitment of the problem or it can be used as a PI tool.