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any further evaluation or treatment that is these materials during handling; required. contaminated sharps; and pathological and microbiological wastes containing blood or OSHA— Occupational Safety and Health blood components. Administration of the U.S. Department of Labor; the Federal agency with safety and Source Individual—Any individual, living health regulatory and enforcement or dead, whose blood or other potentially authorities for most U.S. industry and infectious materials maybe a source of business. occupational exposure to the employee. Examples include, but are not limited to, OPIM- Other Potentially Infectious hospital and clinic patients; clients in Materials— (1)The following human body institutions for the developmentally fluids: semen, vaginal secretions, disabled; trauma victims; clients of drug cerebrospinal fluid, synovial fluid, pleural and alcohol treatment facilities; residents of fluid, pericardial fluid, peritoneal fluid, hospices and nursing homes; human amniotic fluid, saliva in dental procedures, remains; and individuals who donate or sell any body fluid that is visibly contaminated blood or blood components. with blood, and all body fluids in situations Where it is difficult or impossible to Sterilize—The use of a physical or differentiate between body fluids; (2)Any chemical procedure to destroy all microbial unfixed tissue or organ (other than intact life including highly resistant bacterial skin)from a human (living or dead); (3) endospores. HIV-containing cell or tissue organs, or other tissues from experimental animals Universal Precautions—An approach to infected with HIV or HBV. infection control. According to the concept of Universal Precautions, all human blood Parenteral— Piercing mucous membranes and certain human body fluids are treated or the skin barrier through such events as as if known to be infectious for HIV, HBV, needlesticks, human bites, cuts, and and other bloodborne pathogens. abrasions. Work Practice Controls— Controls that Personal Protective Equipment— reduce the likelihood of exposure by Specialized clothing or equipment worn by altering the manner in which a task is an employee for protection against a performed (e.g., prohibiting recapping of hazard. General work clothes (e.g., needles by a two-handed technique.) uniforms, pants, shirts or blouses) not intended to function as protection against a hazard are not considered to be personal protective equipment. Regulated Waste— Liquid or semi-liquid blood or other potentially infectious materials; contaminated items that would release blood or other potentially infectious materials in a liquid or semi-liquid state if compressed; items that are caked with dried blood or other potentially infectious materials and are capable of releasing Page 9 of 16