ADA News (Newspaper) - August 1, 1988, Chicago, Illinois American Dental Association NEWS August State leaders tell the ADA whats on their minds Exchange views at conference you get what you ADA staff members discovered this during the 1988 Management Conference when they asked state and local dental society executive directors for some They got 2 hours ADA President James Saddoris opened the conference by welcoming the more than 100 executive directors from state and local dental societies to the Hillenbrand auditorium July 18 and Having the president of the ADA at a management conference is like having a body at a Saddoris Its important that you have but you hope he doesnt say And he But he did set the tone for the speakers who Its important that youre the ADA president Beyond the obvious reasons of working coordinating your and sharing your knowledge with each this interchange of ideas will be critical to the functions of the One of the most frustrating tasks today is recruitment and he Hampering the recruitment he is a perception that the ADA is a faceless If we cannot create a we will never be successful in that he Its imperative we work Saddoris After a management play performed by the LaSalle Street Management four executive directors from dental societies discussed their member ships concerns during turning the a segment of the conference that provided New legal Chemical JADA AGD and Dentistry in VIEWPOINT My View Letters JOINT WORLD CONGRESS Smithsonian opens Dining WASHINGTON Palmer on the Cabinet 13 the ADA with much Caroline the executive director of the Santa County Dental said local dental societies arent always informed about ADA activ which is creating a gap in She said the executive directors she surveyed prior to the conference want the Association to encourage local dental societies to send them to the management conference each year so they can bring back firsthand information about One of the most important things Ive obtained from attending the management conference is the ability to meet ADA staff ADA President James Saddoris addresses the management conference July 18 at and see what resources are Turner Im then able to go back home and give that information to my Roger the Missouri Dental Asso executive provided what he termed a reverse taking ADA staff on a tour of Missouri to show them the problems and situations that we deal Continued on page 14 Dental society executives answer an audit designed to measure their motivational strengths and The audit was conducted during the recent management Experts lined up for ADAs new speakers bureau Association is launching a speakers bureau that will offer dental professional and educational organizations the opportunity to hear leading researchers discuss diagnosis and treatment of immuno compromised This month the Division of Scientific Affairs is the which features six experts who will speak to dental meetings throughout the No costs are involved for the dental society or organization that requests the speaker Procter Gamble Co is underwriting the travel expenses and honorariums involved in the and the ADA is absorbing the administrative Our hope is that each speaker will make ten presentations a said Enid assistant executive director of the Division of Scientific The presentation will cover the prevalence of immunocompromised states in offer case studies from the speakers provide an overview of the immune system and examples of immune immunosuppressive and oral signs of compromised immune The final part of the program will deal with various aspects of disease caused by the human immunodeficiency virus The speakers for the which originally was proposed by the Council on Dental were chosen from names submitted by dental school deans and from academic leaders in research in HIV and Each speaker will present the same 90 minute program accompanied by the same audiovisual The group wrote the script together and contributed photographs and other illustrations for the slides that accompany the Continued on page five STATES IDA and OSHA to begin enforcing hazard rule Occupational Safety and Health Administration OSHA said it will begin enforcement Aug 1 of a hazard communication program affecting dental and many other manufacturing and nonmanufacturing Because the standard covers dentist the ADA prepared its own program for dentistry and published guide lines in the April 25 ADA OSHA reviewed the Associations program for scope and The standard requires includ ing dentist to inform all employees of the dangers of hazardous chemicals in the workplace and to instruct them in how to handle these substances It had been scheduled to take effect May 23 but legal challenges to the standard caused some uncertainty about how widely OSHA could apply the new A temporary halt to enforce ment of the standard was later clarified by the court as affecting only the construction Although a legal challenge is pending in the US Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit in OSHA said enforce ment will proceed for all but the construc tion July 20 announcement said that beginning Aug inspectors will check for compliance with the standard in covered nonmanufacturing The manufac turing sector has been covered since Most of inspection efforts are aimed at manufacturing sites where most industrial hazards are Although dentists and other health employers are not primary targets of the regulation they will be required to have a written hazard communication which must be kept on file in case of inspection by Dentists will not be required to mail the program to OSHA or to report to the Some of the chemicals in dentists offices that could be covered by the new standard include anesthetic and photographic Manufacturers are required by OSHA to include material safety data sheets MSDS with hazardous substances except for those regulated by the Food and Drug Admin The data sheets should describe the substances properties and the nature of the drugs are not subject to the hazard communication Some of the 25 states with OSHA approved hazard communication rules also honored the courts order and will now begin enforcement in the nonmanufacturing OSHA
