Chemical Hygiene Plan and Safety Manual - LP3050.3 Bloodborne Pathogen Exposure Control Plan

4.5 Engineering Controls: controls (e.g., sharps disposal containers, self- sheathing needles, safer medical devices, such as sharps with engineered sharps injury protections and needleless systems) that isolate or remove the bloodborne pathogens hazard from the workplace

4 6 Exposure Incident: A specific occurrence where personnel are exposed to blood or other potentially infectious materials via the eyes, mouth, mucous membranes or skin through duties performed by their job

4.7 Hazmat suit: Hazardous material suit that covers the entire body and is impermeable to hazardous materials.

4.8 MSDS: Material Safety Data Sheet: a sheet that provides workers with procedures for handling and working with materials and substances in a safe manner. It includes but is not limited to physical properties of the substance, toxicity, health effects, first aid, reactivity, storage, disposal, protective equipment required and spill handling procedures.

4.9 Occupational Exposure: reasonably anticipated skin, eye, mucous membrane, or parenteral contact with blood or other potentially infectious materials that may result from the performance of an employee's duties.

4.10 OPIM: Other potentially infectious material. This category of biohazard includes semen, vaginal secretions, cerebrospinal fluid, synovial fluid, pleural fluid, pericardial fluid, peritoneal fluid, amniotic fluid, saliva and, any other bodily fluid that is contaminated with blood.

4 11 OSHA: Occupational Safety and Health Administration: OSHA standards are rules that describe the methods that employers must use to protect their employees from hazards

4 12 PPE: Personal Protective Equipment: protective clothing or garments designed to protect the wearer’s body from injury by objects, heat, chemicals, electrical components, infections and other potential hazards that he or she may be exposed to at his or her occupation

4.13 Universal Precautions: An approach to infection control where all human blood and certain human body fluids are treated as if known to be infectious for HIV, HBV, and other bloodborne pathogens.