Portable Sanitation Association International

Page 19 ASSOCIATIONINSIGHT Portable Sanitation Association International News BIWEEKLY EDITION FEBRUARY 5, 2020 • Make available hepatitis B vaccinations to all workers with occupational exposure. This vaccination must be offered after the worker has received the required bloodborne pathogens training and within 10 days of initial assignment to a job with occupational exposure. • Make available post-exposure evaluation and follow-up to any occupationally exposed worker who expe- riences an exposure incident. An exposure incident is a specific eye, mouth, other mucous membrane, non- intact skin, or parenteral contact with blood or OPIM. This evaluation and follow-up must be at no cost to the worker and includes documenting the route(s) of exposure and the circumstances. Of course, there's always more to learn. For additional information, go to OSHA's Bloodborne Pathogens and Needlestick Prevention Safety and Health Topics website. The Centers for Disease Control (CDC) also has some good resources. More questions? Let the PSAI know and we'll research it for you. v Dealing with Bloodborne Pathogens…continued from page 8 Writing and Maintaining Your Exposure Control Plan (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 record keeping. Methods of compliance include: » Universal precautions » Engineering and work practice controls such as safer medical devices, sharps disposal containers, hand hygiene, and so on » 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 non-managerial 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.

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