['Bloodborne Pathogens']
['Bloodborne Pathogens']
10/01/2024
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Yes. If employees are trained and designated as responsible for rendering first aid as part of their job duties, they are covered by the protections of the standard. However, OSHA will consider it a de minimis violation — a technical violation carrying no penalties — if employees, who administer first aid as a collateral duty to their routine work assignments, are not offered the pre-exposure hepatitis B vaccination, provided that a number of conditions are met. In these circumstances, no citations will be issued. The conditions that must be met in order to fall under the de minimis violation are listed in OSHA directive CPL 02-02-069.
Generally speaking, these conditions include addressing these types of first aiders specifically in the written exposure control plan, tracking first aid events, training first aiders to report first aid events, and making the vaccine available within 24 hours of a first aid event, regardless if an exposure incident occurred or not.
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