NIOSH Testimony on Bloodborne Pathogens, August 14, 1989.

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• Corporate Authors:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Description:
  This testimony concerned the exposure of workers to bloodborne pathogens in the course of their employment. Specific issues mentioned included the existence of bloodborne pathogens in addition to the ones discussed previously that present a risk to employees with occupational exposure to blood, identification of these pathogens, identification of studies or case reports on hepatitis-B virus (HBV) and human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) that should be included in the health effects analysis, the possibility that OSHA should consider HBV infection as a material impairment of health, and whether OSHA employed the correct methodology for determining the quantitative and qualitative risks of exposure. Further areas of concern to NIOSH included the defining of a correct and secure method for worker protection from bloodborne pathogens, the scope of the proposed OSHA standard, the identification of occupations in which exposure would be likely to occur, the circumstances under which exposure could occur, the possibility of transmission through human breast milk, the clear understanding of the terms contamination and decontamination, and the requirements noted in the proposed standard for controlling exposures.
• Subjects:
  Accidents, Occupational Environmental Monitoring Fluorides Fluorine Occupational Health Safety
• Keywords:
  Accident-prevention AIDS-virus Disease-transmission Disease-vectors Health-care-personnel Infectious-diseases NIOSH-Author NIOSH-Testimony Viral-diseases;
• Document Type:
  Text
• Genre:
  Testimony
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  1-33
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:00192799
• Citation:
  NIOSH 1989 Aug; :1-33
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  1989
• NORA Priority Area:
  Disease and Injury: Infectious Diseases ; AIDS Virus
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:51c5b6febe7dd73d9789feea7f4cf16b93e70263f13af63eb81c44b852bc2aada3757e811b378d0ece136b3dcd15292f5defb5d592769143ca1f1dcc2a60091b
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/180324/cdc_180324_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 1.81 MB ]