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Routine use of certain barrier devices (e.g., gloves, gowns, mask, eye-shields) to prevent the transmission of infectious disease.<\/p>\n

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Standard measures to prevent exposure to blood-borne pathogens.<\/p>\n

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Guidelines designed to protect workers with occupational exposure to blood-borne pathogens (such as HIV and hepatitis B virus). These \u201cuniversal blood and body fluid precautions\u201d (e.g., gloves, masks, and gowns), originally recommended by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in 1985, were mandated by the OSHA Bloodborne Pathogens Standard in 1991 for workers in all U.S. health care settings.<\/p>\n

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The set of procedures used to avoid contact with body fluids and to reduce the risk of spreading HIV and other diseases.<\/p>\n

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A set of guidelines published by OSHA that require the employer and the employee to assume that all human blood and body fluids are infectious for bloodborne pathogens.<\/p>\n

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