HIV AIDS in the workplace 1994

This clip is from the 1994 video, Like Any Other Employee: HIV/AIDS in the Workplace, produced by the US Veterans Administration. Exposures to blood and other body fluids occur across a wide variety of occupations. Health care workers, emergency response and public safety personnel, and other workers can be exposed to blood through needlestick and other sharps injuries, mucous membrane, and skin exposures. The pathogens of primary concern are the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), hepatitis B virus (HBV), and hepatitis C virus (HCV). In 1990, Federal OSHA issued its Bloodborne Pathogen Standard designed to prevent health care and other workers from being exposed to bloodborne pathogens. For more on protecting workers from bloodborne diseases, link to http://www.cdc.gov/niosh/topics/bbp/ .

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Education

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• HIV
• AIDS
• OSHA
• NIOSH
• bloodborne
• infectious
• disease
• hepatitis
• safety
• first
• aid