Exposure Control Plan

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BLOODBORNE PATHOGENS
Exposure Control Plan What School Personnel Need
to Know
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BLOODBORNE PATHOGENS

• A pathogen is a microorganism or substance
  capable of producing a disease. Being bloodborne
  means that the pathogens are present in human
  blood and are transmitted by contact with the
  contaminated blood.

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EXAMPLES OF BLOODBORNE PATHOGENS

• HIV
• HEPATITIS B (HBV)
• HEPATITIS C
• HEPATITIS D

• MALARIA
• SOME SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASES

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SPREAD OF BLOODBORNE PATHOGENS IN THE WORKPLACE

• HIV, HBV, AND OTHER BLOODBORNE PATHOGENS CAN
  SPREAD FROM THE INFECTED PERSON
• into skin from a contaminated object such as
  broken glass or a needle
• by contact with broken skin (scratches, cuts,
  chapped hands, hangnails)
• spray/splash into mouth, nose, or eyes (mucous
  membranes)

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STOP THE SPREAD

• Stop the spread of disease by
• washing your hands
• avoiding blood or other potentially infectious
  materials (OPIM)
• using protective barriers such as gloves

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UNIVERSAL PRECAUTIONS
A method of INFECTION CONTROL in which all blood
and other potentially infectious materials (OPIM)
are treated as if known to be infected with
HIV or HBV or other bloodborne pathogen.
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PROTECTION

• DO NOT touch blood or OPIM
• Use gloves or paper barriers
• Have anyone bleeding hold their own pressure
  dressing
• DO NOT clean a contaminated area without gloves
• Call for help from someone trained to clean and
  disinfect a contaminated area when possible

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HANDWASHING

• Use warm running water and soap
• Rub palms, back of hands, between fingers and
  under rings and fingernails
• rinse well under warm running water and dry hands
  thoroughly
• use hand lotion to prevent drying and cracked
  hands

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USING GLOVES

• WHEN
• Care provider has an open lesion on hand
• Handling contaminated, disposable items - diaper,
  bloody gauze, etc.
• Direct hand contact with possible bloody body
  fluids is anticipated
• Cleaning up body fluid spills

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PROPER REMOVAL OF GLOVES

• Grasp glove at heel of hand without touching skin
• pull glove toward fingers
• remove glove from hand
• While holding soiled glove, insert index and
  middle fingers of free hand under other glove at
  cuff

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PROPER GLOVE REMOVAL

• Pull glove toward fingers
• As glove is removed it is turned inside out, over
  the glove that has already been removed
• Discard contaminated gloves in appropriate waste
  container and wash hands

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