Human blood, human blood components and products made from human blood.
Blood:
Pathogenic microorganisms that are present in human blood and can cause disease in humans. Examples of these pathogens include: Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), Hepatitis B (HBV), Hepatitis C virus, Malaria, Syphilis, Creutzfeld-Jakob Disesase and/or Viral Hemorrhagic Fever.
Bloodborne Pathogens:
All control measures that isolate or remove a hazard from the workplace
Engineering Controls:
National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
NIOSH:
Occupational Safety and Health Administration
OSHA:
The presence or the reasonably anticipated presence of blood or other potentially infectious materials (OPIM) on an item or surface.
Contaminated:
Laundry that has been soiled with blood or other potentially infectious materials (OPIM) or may contain contaminated sharps
Contaminated laundry:
Any contaminated object that can penetrate the skin including, but not limited to, needles, scalpels, broken glass, broken capillary tubes, and exposed ends of dental wires
Contaminated sharps:
The use of physical or chemical means to remove, inactivate, or destroy bloodborne pathogens on a surface or item to the point where they are no longer capable of transmitting infectious particles and the surface or item is rendered safe for handling, use, or disposal
Decontamination:
A specific eye, mouth, other mucous membrane, non-intact skin or parenteral contact with blood or other potentially infectious materials (OPIM) that results from the performance of an employee’s duties. Examples of non-intact skin include skin with dermatitis, hangnails, cuts, abrasions, chafing, or acne.
Exposure incident:
A facility providing an adequate supply of running potable water, soap and singe use towels or hot air drying machines.
Hand washing facilities:
Reasonably anticipated skin, eye, mucous membrane or parenteral contact with blood or OPIM that may result from the performance of an employee’s duties.
Occupational exposure:
When mucous membranes or skin is pierced by needlesticks, human bites, cuts, or abrasions
Parenteral contact:
Specialized clothing or equipment worn by an employee for protection against a hazard. General work clothes (for example uniforms, pants, shirts, or blouses) not intended to function as protection against a hazard isn’t considered to be PPE.
Personal protective equipment (PPE):
- Liquid or semi-liquid blood or other potentially infectious materials (OPIM)2. Contaminated items that would release blood or OPIM in a liquid or semi-liquid state, if compressed3. Items that are caked with dried blood or OPIM and are capable of releasing these materials during handling4. Contaminated sharps5. Pathological and microbiological wastes containing blood or OPIM
Regulated waste:
treating all human blood and OPIM as if known to be infectious for bloodborne pathogens
Universal Precautions:
