Blood Borne Pathogens Safety - BBP Kit

Ensur­ing safe­ty around blood borne pathogens is vital to work­place safe­ty. Prop­er blood borne pathogens train­ing and use of PPE are a great place to start.

Video Tran­script:

Speak­er 1:

You’re all suit­ed up. So what’s next?

Speak­er 2:

All right. First thing I want to do is I want to exam­ine the area, make sure I got every­thing, the con­tents of what I’m going to clean. First thing you’re going to give me is that absorbent paper tow­el. Okay? Then, what we’re going to do is take the absorbent paper tow­el and we’re going to wipe all this loose liq­uid up, which is the bod­i­ly flu­ids and blood. You got to be very care­ful when you’re wip­ing. You don’t want to make any splat­ters, because it could splat­ter on the ground and we just expand our sur­face area of clean­ing. Okay. And then you put the con­tents in the red bio­haz­ard bag.

Speak­er 2:

Next you’re going to hand me the ger­mi­ci­dal wipes. So, here you need to let it sit for two min­utes, sat­u­rate the area, or until air dry. Okay? Still be very care­ful when clean­ing this, and make sure we get it all. This will dis­in­fect any hepati­tis B or poten­tial com­mon ill­ness­es. You want to get it real­ly good. You can nev­er be too cau­tious or too safe when doing this. Then you put the con­tents in the red bio­haz­ard bag.

Speak­er 1:

All right, now we’re going to let it sit for two min­utes or until the air dries.

Speak­er 2:

Cor­rect.

Speak­er 1:

All right, so it’s been two min­utes. Now what?

Speak­er 2:

Now you’re going to have me those moist tow­elettes right there, and I’m going to fin­ish san­i­tiz­ing the sur­face. Now mind you, you always want to be think­ing while you’re doing this and be cau­tious. You can nev­er be too cau­tious and move too slow, because what hap­pens is, as you see, still have my arms exposed, and I can acci­den­tal­ly touch it, and I have a abra­sion or some­thing in my arm or a cut. So now, I’m just going to wipe the sur­face as before. And I’m going to place this con­tent in the red bio­haz­ard bag as well.

Speak­er 1:

All right, now what?

Speak­er 2:

Now we’re going to take the red bio­haz­ard bag and we’re going to place it on the ground. And I’m going to start the decloth. I’m going to start from head to toe. Always remem­ber head to toe, gloves being last. The rea­son why gloves being last is because you always want to touch all the oth­er parts of the PPE and make sure you take those off, and then the gloves will be last­ly dis­closed into the red bio­haz­ard bag.

Speak­er 1:

Okay.

Speak­er 2:

Okay, so I’m going to start with my gog­gles first. Then I’m start­ing with my face mask.

Speak­er 1:

I notice it’s impor­tant not to touch your face, right?

Speak­er 2:

Not to touch your face at all. Then my smock. And then my booties. Then I want to tie the con­tents of this bag up with the red zip ties. Thank you. And we want to make sure this is tight­ly sealed. The rea­son being, we don’t want any leaks or blood com­ing out of the bag. So we want to make sure that we real­ly get this real­ly tight. And then, very imper­a­tive and impor­tant, when you’re doing this last step is how you take these gloves off. Okay? So you’re going to take the first glove inside out, and you’re going to place that in the hand with the glove on. And then you take inside out over top of the glove that was in the hand. And you dis­pose of it into the red bag. And then, you take the con­tents here, place it in the red bio­haz­ard bag and last zip tie being as such.

Speak­er 1:

All right, very good. So now what are we going to do with that bag?

Speak­er 2:

Now it depends on your site. So job spe­cif­ic site, how are they going to dis­pose of the bags is how you dis­pose of it. You con­tact your man­ag­er if you have any questions.

Speak­er 1:

So every account should have a way to get rid of a bio­haz­ard bag.

Speak­er 2:

Exact­ly.

Speak­er 1:

Okay. All right. Last ques­tion for you. I noticed in this kit that there was this lit­tle pink form. Can you tell me what this is?

Speak­er 2:

Yes, so the employ­ee or the per­son clean­ing the spill needs to record it. This is very vital OSHA reg­u­la­tions. So what you’re going to do is you’re going to date; time; expo­sure; employ­ee, your name; the loca­tion, what site you’re at, whether that’s being at Bap­tist Health or wher­ev­er; sources of expo­sure, whether that’s blood or what was exposed, what­ev­er that might be. And then the type of spill, whether it was blood, vom­it, urine, feces, or oth­er. Then the cause of the inci­dent and explain that. Then once you’re done it asked if you instruct­ed and did the way it was sup­posed to be done by pro­ce­dure, you check yes. And then from there you fill that out, give that to your manager.

Speak­er 1:

Awe­some. All right. Well, very good. Let’s go debrief back at your office, if that’s all right.

Speak­er 2:

That sounds great. All right man. Hey, any­time, the last step when you’re clean­ing up a blood spill, blood­borne pathogen spill, you got to wash your hands for 30 sec­onds, so I’ll meet you in my office. All right.

Speak­er 1:

All right, sounds good.

Speak­er 2:

Sounds great. So, in this video, as you may have been aware, [Hal­ston 00:06:28] was not wear­ing the prop­er PPE. But if it was real blood, which it was­n’t, it was ketchup, and some­body is accom­mo­dat­ing you when you’re clean­ing the blood­borne pathogen spill, make sure they’re wear­ing the prop­er PPE.

Speak­er 2:

Also, all blood­borne pathogen kits are not the same, so you might have a dif­fer­ent one at your site. If you do, make sure you fol­low the pro­ce­dures with what is in that box. And also, going for­ward, just want to make sure if you don’t have a blood­borne pathogen kit, make sure you con­tact your man­ag­er so we can get you there immediately.

Speak­er 3:

Time for Blood­borne Pathogens Safe­ty Train­ing pro safe­ty tip num­ber three. Use extreme cau­tion when you put on your per­son­al pro­tec­tive equip­ment that’s in the blood­borne pathogen kit. And make sure you put on every­thing that is includ­ed. Fol­low the steps in the blood­borne pathogen kit exact­ly to clean up the spill, pay­ing extra spe­cial atten­tion to the time that’s need­ed to kill the poten­tial haz­ardous mate­r­i­al. Move care­ful­ly and slow­ly when remov­ing the per­son­al pro­tec­tive equip­ment and always remove your gloves last.

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