Bloodborne Pathogens Standard Employer Requirements for Training: - Employers must ensure
that their workers receive regular training that covers all elements of the standard including, but not
limited to: information on bloodborne pathogens and diseases, methods used to control occupational
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Bloodborne Pathogens OSHA
Bloodborne Pathogens Standard Employer Requirements for Training: - Employers must ensure
that their workers receive regular training that covers all elements of the standard including, but not
limited to: information on bloodborne pathogens and diseases, methods used to control occupational
exposure, Hepatitis B vaccine, and medical evaluation and post-exposure follow-up procedures.
Employers must offer this training at the time of hiring, at least annually thereafter, and when new or
modified tasks or procedures affect a worker's occupational exposure.
Bloodborne Pathogens Standard Employer Requirements for Exposure Control Plan: - An exposure
control plan is a written plan to eliminate or minimize occupational exposures. The employer must write
a plan that lists the jobs where workers may be exposed, along with a list of the tasks and procedures
performed by those workers that result in their exposure.
Bloodborne Pathogens Standard Employer Requirements for Annual Plan Update: - Employers
must use input from frontline workers to update the exposure control plan annually. These updates must
reflect changes in tasks, procedures, and positions that affect occupational exposure, and also
technological changes that eliminate or reduce occupational exposure.
Bloodborne Pathogens Standard Employer Requirements for Universal Precautions: - Employers
are required to implement the use of universal precautions (treating all human blood and other
potentially infectious material as if known to be infectious for bloodborne pathogens).
Bloodborne Pathogens Standard Employer Requirements for Engineering Controls: - Engineering
controls are devices that isolate or remove the bloodborne pathogens hazard from the workplace and
the standard requires that employers identify and use such engineering controls. They include sharps
disposal containers, self-sheathing needles, and safer medical devices, such as sharps with engineered
sharps-injury protection and needleless systems.
Bloodborne Pathogens Standard Employer Requirements for Work Practice Controls: - Employers
are required to identify and ensure the use of work practice controls. These are practices that reduce the
possibility of exposure by changing the way a task is performed, such as appropriate practices for
handling and disposing of contaminated sharps, handling specimens, handling laundry, and cleaning
contaminated surfaces and items.
, Bloodborne Pathogens Standard Employer Requirements for Personal Protective Equipment: -
Employers must provide personal protective equipment (PPE), such as gloves, gowns, eye
protection, and masks. Employers must clean, repair, and replace this equipment as needed. Provision,
maintenance, repair and replacement are at no cost to the worker.
Bloodborne Pathogens Standard Employer Requirements for Hepatitis B Vaccination: - Your
employer must provide Hepatitis B vaccinations to all workers with occupational exposure. This
vaccination must be offered after the worker has received the required bloodborne pathogens training
and within 10 days of initial assignment to a job with occupational exposure.
OSHA's Bloodborne Pathogens Standard, as amended by the 2000 Needlestick Safety and Prevention
Act, is a regulation that: - prescribes safeguards to protect workers against health hazards related
to bloodborne pathogens.
Bloodborne Pathogens Standard Employer Requirements for Post-exposure Evaluation and Follow-up: -
Employers must make available post-exposure evaluation and follow-up to any occupationally
exposed worker who experiences an exposure incident.
Bloodborne Pathogens Standard Employer Requirements for Labels and Signs to Communicate Hazards: -
Warning labels must be affixed to containers of regulated waste; containers of contaminated
reusable sharps; refrigerators and freezers containing blood or other potentially infectious material;
other containers used to store, transport, or ship blood or other potentially infectious material;
contaminated equipment that is being shipped or serviced; and bags or containers of contaminated
laundry, except as provided in the standard. Facilities may use red bags or red containers instead of
labels. In HIV and Hepatitis B research laboratories and production facilities, signs must be posted at all
access doors when other potentially infectious material or infected animals are present in the work area
or containment module.
Bloodborne Pathogens Standard Employer Requirements for Medical and Training Records: -
Employers also have an obligation to maintain worker medical and training records. The employer
also must maintain a sharps injury log.
You, as a worker, have legal protections against health hazards related to bloodborne pathogens. Among
other things, these protections require that employers: - provide PPE, use controls to prevent
injury, label hazards correctly, and provide Hepatitis B vaccinations, as well as free medical evaluations
should an injury involving bloodborne pathogens occur.
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