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.
. Labels and Signs to Communicate Hazards - Warning labels must be affixed to containers of
regulated waste; containers of contam...
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.
. 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.
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.
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).
Engineering Controls - 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.
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.
, PPE - 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.
Hepatitis B Vaccinations - 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.
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.
Exposure Control Plan - 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
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.
The Needlestick Safety and Prevention Act revised the bloodborne pathogens standard requiring
employers to evaluate, select, and use what to eliminate or minimize exposure to contaminated sharps?
- Engineering Controls
4 ways bloodborne pathogens can be spread: - 1. Injection
2. Skin Abrasions
3. Mucous Membranes
4. Sexual Contact
Ways bloodborne pathogens are NOT transmitted by: - - Touching an infected person
- Coughing or sneezing
- Using the same equipment, materials, toilets, water fountains, or showers as an infected person
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