Exposure Control Methods
Methods to Control the Risk of Exposure
The recommended infection-control concept called "Universal Precautions" assumes that everyone's blood and body fluids be considered potentially infectious. This eliminates the difficulty in determining risk individually. Remember, although some bodily fluids have not been documented to transmit pathogens, it is sometimes impossible to tell if blood or another potentially infectious fluid is present.
It is important to use universal precautions whenever there is a potential for exposure to bloodborne pathogens or other potentially infectious materials.
The two essential control strategies employees use to eliminate or minimize the transmission of bloodborne diseases in the workplace are:
- engineering controls
- work practice controls
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6-1. What is the basic assumption of "Universal Precautions?"
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