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Responsibilities

4.1 Environmental Health & Safety Department

  1. Maintain this university-wide written program. Including a review of the written program at least annually.
  2. Aid Campus Units in completing and implementing their customized Exposure Control Plan.
  3. Provide training to all occupationally exposed employees, and maintains a file of all employees who have been trained in this program.
  4. Maintain the Sharps Injury Log.
  5. Complete other duties as listed in this written program.

4.2 Occupational Health Clinic

  1. Provide hepatitis vaccines to eligible employees, as requested by Campus Units.
  2. Evaluate employees who report exposure incidents to the Clinic.
  3. Maintain any employee medical records relevant to this program, including hepatitis B vaccinations, exposure incident evaluations and treatment.

4.3 Campus Unit

  1. Designate an employee to oversee the campus unit program and ensure the other responsibilities are fulfilled.
  2. Complete the customized Exposure Control Plan. Make the customized ECP available to employees. Review and update the customized ECP at least annually.
  3. Enforce all requirements of the plan, in order to minimize or eliminate employees’ occupational exposure.
  4. Complete other duties as listed in this written program.

4.4 Employees with Occupational Exposure to Bloodborne Pathogens

  1. Participate in the required training.
  2. Comply with all elements of the university Exposure Control Plan (ECP) and the customized ECP for your Campus Unit.
  3. Report all exposure incidents to the work supervisor immediately after they occur, or as soon as feasible. Work with the supervisor to complete the Incident Report Form and if necessary the Needlestick Report Form.

5.0 Exposure Determination

The exposure determination must be made for each Campus Unit instituting a BBP program. The exposure determination must include:

  1. A list of all job classifications in which all employees in those job classifications have occupational exposure; and
  2. A list of job classifications in which some employees have occupational exposure. Each job classification must include a list of all tasks and procedures or groups of closely related task and procedures in which occupational exposure occurs.

This exposure determination will be made without regard to the use of personal protective equipment.