2018-574-E Emergency Svc - South Orange Rescue Squad operational agreement

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Revised -XO\ EC 9: Annual Review Exposure Control Plan: •An annual review and update will be conducted to reflect changes in technology that eliminate or reduce exposure to bloodborne pathogens. Medical devices with engineered sharps injury protections and needle-less systems constitute an effective engineering control and will be considered during our review. These devices will be used where feasible to ensure employee safety. Refer to Appendix (E). •This review will: o Take into account innovations in medical procedure and technological developments that reduce the risk of exposure (e.g., newly available medical devices designed to reduce needlesticks); and o Document consideration and use of appropriate, commercially available, and effective safer devices (e.g., describe the devices identified as candidates for use, the method(s) used to evaluate those devices, and justification for the eventual selection). •Since no one medical device is considered appropriate or effective for all circumstances, we will select devices that, based on reasonable judgment: o Will not jeopardize client or employee safety or be medically inadvisable; o Will make an exposure incident less likely to occur OSHA States: (During your annual review of devices, you must inquire about new or prospective safer options and document this fact in your written Exposure Control Plan. This would include, but would not be limited to, newly available medical devices designed to reduce the risk of percutaneous exposure to bloodborne pathogens. Consideration and implementation of safer medical devices could be documented in the Exposure Control Plan by describing the safer devices identified as candidates for adoption; the method or methods used to evaluate devices and the results of evaluations; and justification for selection decisions. This information must be updated at least annually. The revised Exposure Control Plan requirements make clear that employers must implement the safer medical devices that are appropriate, commercially available, and effective. No one medical device is appropriate in all circumstances of use. For purposes of this standard, an "appropriate" safer medical device includes only devices whose use, based on reasonable judgment in individual cases, will not jeopardize patient or employee safety or be medically contraindicated. Although new devices are being continually introduced, OSHA recognizes that a safer device may not be available for every situation. If a safer device is not available in the marketplace, the employer is not required to develop any such device. Furthermore, the revised requirements are limited to the safer medical devices that are considered to be Orange County Emergency Services Exposure Control Policy Standard Operating Procedures DocuSign Envelope ID: 79C5D167-B6CA-4E59-B4AC-AA38CC1B20BD