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S.3067
Sponsor: Sen Jeffords, James M.(introduced 9/19/2000)
Related Bills: H.R.5178
Latest Major Action: 9/19/2000 Referred to Senate committee. Latest Status: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. (text of measure as introduced: CR S8761-8762)
Title: A bill to require changes in the bloodborne pathogens standard in effect under the Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1970.
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9/19/2000:
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. (text of measure as introduced: CR S8761-8762)

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COSPONSORS(9), ALPHABETICAL [followed by Cosponsors withdrawn]:     (Sort: by date)

Sen Bingaman, Jeff - 10/24/2000 Sen Boxer, Barbara - 10/27/2000
Sen Enzi, Michael B. - 9/19/2000 Sen Gorton, Slade - 10/24/2000
Sen Hutchison, Kay Bailey - 10/5/2000 Sen Kennedy, Edward M. - 9/19/2000
Sen Leahy, Patrick J. - 10/5/2000 Sen Reid, Harry M. - 9/19/2000
Sen Wellstone, Paul D. - 10/24/2000


SUMMARY AS OF:
9/19/2000--Introduced.

Needlestick Safety and Prevention Act - Revises the bloodborne pathogens standard, in effect under the Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1970 (OSHA) to include safer medical devices, such as sharps with engineered sharps injury protections and needleless systems, as examples of engineering controls designed to eliminate or minimize occupational exposure to bloodborne pathogens through needlestick and other percutaneous injuries. Requires certain employers to: (1) review and update exposure control plans to reflect changes in technology that eliminate or reduce such exposure, and document their consideration and implementation of appropriate commercially available and effective safer medical devices for such purpose; (2) maintain a sharps injury log, noting the type and brand of device used, where the injury occurred, and an explanation of the incident (exempting employers who are not required to maintain specified OSHA logs); and (3) seek input on such engineering and work practice controls from the affected health care workers (exempting employers who are not required to establish exposure control plans).

Requires such modifications of the standard to: (1) be in force until superseded by regulations promulgated by the Secretary of Labor under OSHA; and (2) take effect without regard to specified procedural requirements.