exposure control plan
Medical term Infection Control and Safety
An employer's written OSHA plan to eliminate or minimize employee exposure to bloodborne pathogens.
Related terms
- bloodborne pathogensMicroorganisms in human blood that can cause disease, such as hepatitis B virus (HBV), hepatitis C virus and…
- OSHAOccupational Safety and Health Administration: the federal agency that sets and enforces workplace safety…
- droplet transmissionSpread of pathogens in respiratory droplets released by coughing, sneezing or talking.
- endemicA disease constantly present in a particular geographic area.
- engineering controlsDevices that isolate or remove a bloodborne pathogen hazard, such as sharps containers and safety-engineered…
- epidemicMore cases of a disease in a community or region than normally expected.
- exposure incidentContact of an eye, mouth, other mucous membrane, nonintact skin or parenteral route with blood or other…
- fomiteAn object or surface that can carry pathogens from one person to another.
- fungusAn organism from the kingdom Fungi; some fungi cause infections.
- healthcare-associated infectionAn infection a patient acquires while receiving health care.
Study Infection Control and Safety