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119 2019 INDUSTRY RESOURCE DIRECTORY Safety and Health Writing and Maintaining Your ECP To satisfy OSHA's requirements, an ECP must include: • The exposure determination, which identifies job classifications with occupational exposure and tasks and procedures where there is occupational exposure, and that are performed by employees in job classifications in which some employees have occupational exposure • The procedures for evaluating the circumstances surrounding exposure incidents • A schedule of how other provisions of the standard are implemented, including methods of compliance, HIV and HBV research laboratories and production facilities requirements, hepatitis B vaccination and post-exposure evaluation and follow-up, communication of hazards to employees, and recordkeeping Methods of compliance include: » Universal precautions » Engineering and work practice controls, e.g., safer medical devices, sharps disposal containers, hand hygiene » Personal protective equipment » Housekeeping, including decontamination procedures and removal of regulated waste • Documentation of: » The annual consideration and implementation of appropriate commercially available and effective safer medical devices designed to eliminate or minimize occupational exposure, and » The solicitation of nonmanagerial healthcare workers (who are responsible for direct patient care and are potentially exposed to injuries from contaminated sharps) in the identification, evaluation, and selection of effective engineering and work practice controls. The ECP must be reviewed and updated at least annually, and whenever necessary to reflect new or modified tasks and procedures that affect occupational exposure and to reflect new or revised employee positions with occupational exposure. Better worksites. Better weekends. Better world. EXCLUSIVE MEMBERS-ONLY CONTENT REDACTED Join us now at www.psai.org for access to this valuable information.