OSHA & Agencies
OSHA is the acronym for this organization.
What is Occupational Safety and Health Administration?
Single-celled organisms with characteristics of both plants and animals.
What is bacteria?
What is scabies?
Completely destroying all microbial life, including spores.
What is sterilization?
You must keep these on hand to reference when using any disinfectant.
The EPA registers many different types of these products.
What are disinfectants?
Single-celled organisms that include molds, mildews, and yeasts.
What are fungi?
What are viruses?
The process that eliminates most microorganisms on nonliving surfaces.
What is disinfection?
State rules require tools and implements be cleaned and disinfected before and after this.
What is each services?
Guidelines published by the CDC that assume all blood and body fluids are infectious.
What are standard precautions?
Organisms that grow, feed, and shelter on or in another organism.
What are parasites?
Illnesses transmitted by this method include salmonella, ringworm, ringworm, and MRSA
What is indirect transmission?
What is efficacy?
This disinfectant is acceptable to allow contact with skin.
What is isopropyl alcohol? (or hydrogen peroxide)
Products without this word on the label are merely cleaners.
What is "disinfectant"
Colonies of microorganisms that adhere to surfaces.
What are biofilms?
Also known as a communicable disease; disease that is capable of being spread from one person to another.
What is a contagious disease
To properly disinfect implements, they must be fully this in the solution.
What is completely submerged?
These disinfectants are a form of formaldehyde and many damage skin and eyes?
What are phenolic disinfectants?
If this word appears on the label, the product must be diluted before use.
What is "concentrate"?
Pathogenic bacteria may produce this.
What is disease?
You will contract this disease by sharing needles with an intravenous drug user.
Chemical germicides formulated for use on skin; registered by the FDA
What are antiseptics?
QUATS is the acronym for these products; they are made for the disinfection of nonporous surfaces.