Training Requirements
The minimum frequency required for providing BBP training after the initial session.
What is annually?
The universal symbol or color used to label regulated waste containers.
What is the biohazard warning symbol or red color?
The person responsible for paying for the provision, cleaning, repair, and replacement of all required PPE
What is the employer (at no cost to the employee)?
The full name for the abbreviation OPIM.
What are Other Potentially Infectious Materials?
The three types of controls that, in order, are used to eliminate or minimize employee exposure (starting with the highest priority).
What are Engineering Controls, Work Practice Controls, and Personal Protective Equipment (PPE)?
The time frame by which the Hepatitis B vaccine must be offered to an employee following initial assignment and training.
What is within 10 working days?
OSHA requires that these containers, used for storing, transporting, or shipping blood or OPIM, must have biohazard warning labels.
What are refrigerators and freezers?
The type of contaminated disposable glove that must never be washed or decontaminated for reuse.
What are disposable/single-use gloves?
The fundamental concept that mandates treating all human blood and OPIM as if known to be infectious.
What is Universal Precautions?
This key document must include a list of job classifications where employees have occupational exposure.
What is the Exposure Determination?
This required element of training ensures employees understand the dangers of BBP, their symptoms, and transmission.
What is epidemiology, symptoms, and transmission of bloodborne diseases?
The records that must contain, at a minimum, the type and brand of device involved in an injury and an explanation of how the incident occurred.
What is the Sharps Injury Log?
The required action an employee must take immediately, or as soon as feasible, after removing gloves or other PPE.
What is washing hands?
The term for piercing mucous membranes or the skin barrier through events such as needlesticks, human bites, cuts, and abrasions.
What is parenteral contact.
OSHA requires documentation that the employer considered and implemented this category of devices to minimize occupational exposure.
What are safer medical devices (or sharps with engineered sharps injury protections)?
This characteristic of BBP training is required by OSHA to ensure employees can ask questions and clarify information.
What is interactive?
The two main pathogens specifically named in the BBP standard as posing a major health hazard.
What are Hepatitis B Virus (HBV) and Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV)?
This type of protection (mask, goggles, or face shield) must be worn when splashes, spray, spatter, or droplets of blood or OPIM may be generated.
What is eye and face protection?
This body fluid is considered OPIM in dental procedures, but only if it is visibly contaminated with blood in non-dental procedures.
What is saliva?
The specific group of employees from whom the employer must solicit and document input for the selection of engineering and work practice controls.
What are non-managerial employees responsible for direct patient care?
The minimum length of time the employer must maintain training records.
What is 3 years?
The specific requirement for how an employer must maintain the Sharps Injury Log to protect the affected employee.
What is in a manner that protects the confidentiality of the injured employee?
The specific requirement that applies to utility gloves (unlike disposable gloves) regarding their use and maintenance.
What is that they may be decontaminated for reuse (if their integrity is not compromised)?
The minimum retention period required for employee medical records related to BBP exposure.
What is duration of employment plus 30 years?
The maximum time period an employer has to provide the exposed employee with the evaluating health care professional's written opinion after a post-exposure evaluation is complete.
What is within 15 days?