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Workplace Practices
Wash hands thoroughly after removing gloves and wash hands or any other part of your body with soap and water immediately after contact with blood or bodily fluids.
Use disposable needles and syringes whenever possible. Do not recap, bend, or cut needles.
Place sharp instruments in specially designated puncture-resistant containers located as close as possible to the area where they are used. Handle and dispose of them with extraordinary care to prevent accidental injury.
Employees are prohibited from eating, drinking, smoking, applying cosmetics, handling contact lenses or applying lip balm in areas where there is a reasonable likelihood of occupational exposure. Food and drink shall not be kept in refrigerators, freezers, shelves, cabinets or counter tops where blood or other potentially infectious materials are present.
Housekeeping
Employers shall ensure that the workplace is maintained in a clean and sanitary condition. The employer shall determine and implement an appropriate written schedule for cleaning and a method of decontamination based upon the location within the facility, type of surface to be cleaned, type of soil present and tasks or procedures being performed in the area.
Follow general guidelines for sterilization, disinfections, housekeeping and waste disposal. Use appropriate protective equipment. Place potentially infective waste in containers that are either red or labeled “Biohazard” with the universal biohazard symbol. Dispose of them, as local regulations require.
Prompt cleanup is required of blood and bodily fluid spills using an EPA approved germicide, a hospital-level disinfectant with an HIV-1 claim or a solution of 5.25% sodium hypochlorite (household bleach) diluted between 1:10 and 1:100 with water.
Universal Precaution
This approach to infection control is to treat all human blood and human bodily fluids as if known to be infectious for HIV, HBV and other blood borne pathogens.
Written Exposure Plan
A written exposure plan is required if it can be reasonably anticipated that one or more of your employees may have skin, eye or mucous membrane contact with blood or other potentially infectious materials. It must list each task and procedure with “occupational exposure” and explain the means and methods the employer has adopted in order to satisfy the OSHA requirements.
IN CASE OF EXPOSURE CALL (586)286-9336 TO REPORT THE EXPOSURE TO THE RECREATION DIRECTOR or (Any full time office staff), THEN PROCEED TO THE EMPLOYEE CLINIC.
EXPOSURE FORMS MUST ME COMPLETED AND TURNED IN TO THE MAIN OFFICE
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