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.
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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