Employ Certified Dental Technicians in supervisory positions. A Certified Dental Laboratory (CDL) must employ Certified Dental Technicians (CDT's) -- who are subject to strict continuing education requirements -- in supervisory positions.
Document facility compliance with accepted health and safety standards. The CDL Board seeks to assure that Certified Dental Laboratories are well equipped to provide the service you require, and that they comply with necessary standards of occupational health and safety. The Board encourages standards of lighting, ventilation and overall maintenance that will make the laboratory a desirable working environment that will attract technicians who are committed to high standards for themselves and their vocation.
Maintain high levels of training and practice in infection control. For a dental laboratory to provide professional-level support to dentistry, its technicians must keep pace with new technological development and current theory and practice in dental restorations. CDL Guidelines further recommend that all employees of Certified Dental Laboratories be offered continuing education opportunities on a regular basis.
Hazard communication.... exposure control...these are the law for employers today. But CDL goes a step farther in requiring evidence of proper materials and recognized training for laboratory employees -- to assure that they meet reliable standards for routine practice of infection control procedures that will protect laboratory personnel, their dental clients and all persons with whom they come in contact.
