{"id":24,"date":"2012-12-20T09:50:12","date_gmt":"2012-12-20T17:50:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kern.org\/workerscomp\/?page_id=24"},"modified":"2024-08-02T22:00:41","modified_gmt":"2024-08-02T22:00:41","slug":"bloodborne-pathogens","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/kern.org\/occupational-health-safety\/bloodborne-pathogens\/","title":{"rendered":"Bloodborne Pathogens"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The California Occupational Safety and Health Administration (Cal-OSHA) issued a Bloodborne Pathogens regulation in order to minimize the potential for workplace exposure to pathogens including human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), Hepatitis B virus (HBV), and Hepatitis C virus (HBC).\u00a0 The chart below provides guidance on whether an incident meets the Cal-OSHA definition of an Exposure Incident, and if so, the steps an employer must take to follow up.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/kern.org\/occupational-health-safety\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/52\/2023\/08\/BBP-Post-Exposure-Eval-2-1.pdf\" class=\"btn btn-primary\">BBP Post Exposure Evaluation<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>This form is completed in the event of an Exposure Incident (as defined above).\u00a0 The completed form must be sent to Human Resources.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/kern.org\/occupational-health-safety\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/52\/2023\/07\/Exposure-Incident-Determination.pdf\" class=\"btn btn-primary\">Exposure Incident Determination <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The California Occupational Safety and Health Administration (Cal-OSHA) issued a Bloodborne Pathogens regulation in order to minimize the potential for workplace exposure to pathogens including human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), Hepatitis B virus (HBV), and Hepatitis C virus (HBC).\u00a0 The chart below provides guidance on whether an incident meets the Cal-OSHA definition of an Exposure Incident, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-24","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kern.org\/occupational-health-safety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/24","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kern.org\/occupational-health-safety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kern.org\/occupational-health-safety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kern.org\/occupational-health-safety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kern.org\/occupational-health-safety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/kern.org\/occupational-health-safety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/24\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":383,"href":"https:\/\/kern.org\/occupational-health-safety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/24\/revisions\/383"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kern.org\/occupational-health-safety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}