Although the BBP standard incorporates UP, the infection control community no longer uses UP on its own. 2 UP is an approach to infection control in which all human blood and certain human body fluids are treated as if they are known to be infectious. Universal precautions (UP), originally recommended by the CDC in the 1980s, was introduced as an approach to infection control to protect workers from HIV, HBV, and other bloodborne pathogens in human blood and certain other body fluids, regardless of a patients’ infection status.1 Adhering to standard and transmission-based precautions in healthcare settings is recommended by Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), and protects workers from a wider range of infectious disease hazards than the BBP standard.Įmployers and workers should be familiar with several key approaches to infection control, including universal precautions, standard precautions and transmission-based precautions. The BBP standard applies when workers have occupational exposure to human blood or other potentially infectious materials (OPIM), as defined in paragraphs (a) and (b) of the BBP standard, and requires the use of universal precautions to prevent contact with these materials. 1030) and personal protective equipment (PPE, Subpart I) require employers to protect workers from occupational exposure to infectious agents. OSHA standards for bloodborne pathogens (BBP.
The Bloodborne Pathogens standard (.1030) and CDC’s recommended standard precautions both include personal protective equipment, such as gloves, gowns, masks, eye protection (e.g., goggles), and face shields, to protect workers from exposure to infectious diseases. The transmission-based precautions used by healthcare practitioners for infection control CDC/ Amanda Mills Worker protections against occupational exposure to infectious diseases Comparing the universal precautions of OSHA’s Bloodborne Pathogens standard to the standard precautions and
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