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to any person within or outside the workplace except as required by the standard or as may be required by law. APPENDIX A: Definitions Biohazard Label—A label affixed to rendered safe for handling,use, or containers of regulated waste, disposal. refrigerator/freezers and other containers used to store, transport or ship blood and Engineering Controls— Controls (e.g., other potentially infectious materials. The sharps disposal containers, retractable label must be fluorescent orange-red in lancets) that isolate or remove the color with the biohazard symbol and the bloodbome pathogens hazard from the word biohazard on the lower part of the workplace. label. Exposure Incident—A specific eye, Blood— Human blood, human blood mouth, other mucous membrane, non components, and products made from intact skin, or parenteral contact with blood human blood. or other potentially infectious materials that results from the performance of an Bloodborne Pathogens— Pathogenic employee's duties. micro-organisms that are present in human blood and can infect and cause disease in V— Hepatitis B Virus. humans. These pathogens include, but are not limited to, Hepatitis B virus (HBV), IV— Human Immunodeficiency Virus and Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV.) Licensed Healthcare Professional—A Clinical Laboratory—A workplace where person whose legally permitted scope of diagnostic or other screening procedures practice allows him or her to independently are performed on blood or other potentially perform the activities required by infectious materials. paragraph (f) "Hepatitis B Vaccination and Post Exposure Evaluation and Follow-up" Contaminated—The presence or the of OSHA's Bloodborne Pathogens reasonably anticipated presence of blood Standard. or other potentially infectious materials on an item or surface. Medical Consultation—A consultation which takes place between an employee Contaminated Sharps- Contaminated and a licensed medical professional for the objects that can penetrate the skin purpose of determining the employee's including, but not limited to needles, medical condition resulting from exposure scalpels, broken glass, broken capillary to blood or other potentially infectious tubes, and exposed ends of dental wire. materials, as well as any further evaluation or treatment that is required. Decontamination—The use of physical or chemical means to remove, inactivate, or Occupational Exposure— Reasonably destroy bloodborne pathogens on a anticipated skin, eye, mucous membrane, surface or item to the point where they are or parenteral contact with blood or other no longer capable of transmitting infectious potentially infectious materials, as well as particles and the surface or item is Page 8 of 16