HCPro.com: OSHA Watch

September 2008 (Volume 10, Issue 5)	view entire issue

Update your OSHA safety manual
This month, Quality America focuses on hepatitis B virus (HBV) vaccination documentation and protecting workers from exposure to waste anesthetic gases. As usual, download updates on these subjects using the password on p. 8 of the PDF of this issue. Documenting hepatitis B vaccinations A vaccination record is a useful tool in assisting healthcare professionals when administering postexposure counseling and treatment to workers following a needlestick or sharps injury, and OSHA requires employers to record the HBV vaccination status of each employee covered under the bloodborne pathogens standard.

Sharps injury log, artificial nails, staffing agency, anonymous complaints, physicians as employees
Q: Must a medical practice keep a sharps injury log? A: Although section (h)(5) of the bloodborne pathogens standard generally requires employers to establish and maintain a sharps injury log for the recording of percutaneous injuries from contaminated sharps, employers partially exempt from Part 1904 recordkeeping requirements are not required to keep a sharps injury log.

Other recently-published articles from OSHA Watch:

Ask The Expert

Update your OSHA safety manual: Fit testing and glutaraldehyde spills

Sharps injury log, artificial nails, staffing agency, anonymous complaints, physicians as employees

Update your OSHA safety manual

ABOUT HCPRO

PRESS

CAREERS @ HCPRO

ADVERTISING OPPORTUNITIES

ONLINE STORE

200 HOODS LANE

P.O. BOX 1168

MARBLEHEAD, MA 01945, USA

PHONE: 800/650-6787

FAX: 781/639-7857

Copyright Statement	Privacy Policy

*MAGNET™, MAGNET RECOGNITION PROGRAM®, and ANCC MAGNET RECOGNITION® are trademarks of the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC). The products and services of HCPro, Inc. and The Greeley Company are neither sponsored nor endorsed by the ANCC