Personal Protective Equipment, BBP & Sharps

OSHA’s bloodborne pathogen standards lay down the guidelines for employers to protect their workers from these life-threatening pathogens.

• Establish a written plan to eliminate or minimize occupational exposures.
• Implement the use of universal precautions.
• Make available hepatitis B vaccinations to all the workers with occupational exposure.
• Employers must update the plan annual to reflect all the changes.
• Use labels and signs to communicate hazards.
• Identify and use engineering controls to isolate or remove the blood borne pathogens hazard from the workplace.
• Identify and ensure the use of work practice controls for reducing the possibility of exposure by changing the way a task is performed.
• Make available post-exposure evaluation and follow-up to any occupationally exposed worker who experiences an exposure incident.
• Provide personal protective equipment (PPE), such as gloves, gowns, eye protection and masks.
• Provide proper information and training to workers.
• Maintain worker’s medical and training records.