Bloodborne Pathogens: Assessments & Training Service: Phase Associates
Workers who may encounter bodily fluids are at an increased risk of exposure to bloodborne pathogens. If your workers are at risk, your company must have a biosafety plan.
Reducing and eliminating the risk that comes with possible exposure to common types of bloodborne pathogens can be difficult. You must assess safety from all angles, plan accordingly, and train your workers to follow safe work practices. By working with Phase Associates, we can help you eliminate these risks and keep workers safe.
Reducing and eliminating the risk that comes with possible exposure to common types of bloodborne pathogens can be difficult. You must assess safety from all angles, plan accordingly, and train your workers to follow safe work practices. By working with Phase Associates, we can help you eliminate these risks and keep workers safe.
Assessments
Your biosafety program must meet the requirements of OSHA 29 9 CFR 1910.1030. To know if your workplace meets these OSHA requirements, you must do a risk assessment.
An employee risk assessment can help determine how and which employees are at risk of exposure to infectious pathogens. Many workers you may not expect could be at risk of coming into contact. For example, the cleaning staff could be at risk due to bodily fluids they encounter.
PHASE Associates offers comprehensive environmental health and safety services, and assessments for bloodborne pathogens in workplaces are one.
Our bloodborne pathogen assessment starts with reviewing the exposure risk of all individuals in the workplace area, followed by bio-safety audits. These audits identify the areas where employees may be exposed to harmful bloodborne pathogens.
Planning Services
Once an environmental consulting company like Phase Associates completes the proper assessment and audits, they will implement a safety action plan. Because many different materials can transmit bloodborne pathogens, this program will be created to focus on and meet all OSHA 29 9 CFR 1910.1030 requirements within your company’s individual needs.
The plan will include the best practices and engineering controls most relevant to your workers. For example, potentially dangerous materials will be labeled to keep workers from mismanaging them.
Training Services
Now that the assessment and audits and the action plan are completed, it’s time to ensure the workers understand how to follow the safe work practices outlined in the program.
The environmental health and safety team at Phase Associates provides these training services. Other diseases like Ebola can be covered as needed, along with training to eliminate exposure to bloodborne and infectious pathogens.
It’s also essential that you periodically offer employee refresher training. Over time, safety practices may change as you identify new hazards and better practices. But, in addition, workers may become lax. This carelessness can result in knowledge gaps that could put their health at risk.
Protect Your Employees from Bloodborne Pathogens
You can help protect workers from exposure to bloodborne pathogens with a few steps. Start by conducting employee risk assessments and biosafety audits. Then, develop a written safety program and ensure compliance through bloodborne pathogens training.
Working with PHASE Associates will ensure your workers are fully protected. Get in touch with PHASE Associates today to learn more and get started.
We provide bloodborne pathogen assessments, audits, planning and training to the states of New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Connecticut, Delaware, Georgia, Maryland, and Virginia.