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2000 CIS H 34149
TITLE: OSHA's
Compliance Directive on Bloodborne Pathogens and the Prevention of
Needlestick Injuries
CIS-NO: 2000-H341-49
SOURCE: Committee on Education and the Workforce. House
DOC-TYPE:
Hearing Retrieve
the full text of testimony
DATE: June 22, 2000
LENGTH:
v+235 p.
CONG-SESS: 106-2
ITEM-NO: 1015-A; 1015-B
SUDOC: Y4.ED8/1:106-112
INCLUDED IN LEGISLATIVE
HISTORY OF: P.L.
106-430
SUMMARY:
Committee Serial No. 106-112.
Hearing before the Subcom on Workforce Protections to review OSHA revised
compliance directive on bloodborne pathogens, focusing on efforts to prevent
injuries to health care workers from accidental sticks from needles used in
medical procedures.
Also briefly considers H.R. 1899, the Health
Care Worker Needlestick Prevention Act, to require OSHA to
issue regulations to eliminate or minimize the risk of
needlestick injury to health care workers.
Supplementary material (p. 43-235) includes witnesses' written statements
and submitted statements.
CONTENT-NOTATION: Bloodborne
pathogens and needlestick injury prevention, OSHA compliance
directive review
BILLS: 106
H.R. 1899
DESCRIPTORS:
OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY AND HEALTH ADMINISTRATION; BLOOD;
OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH AND SAFETY REGULATION; COMMUNICABLE DISEASES; PREVENTIVE
MEDICINE; MEDICAL PERSONNEL; MEDICAL SUPPLIES AND EQUIPMENT; HEALTH CARE WORKER
NEEDLESTICK PREVENTION ACT
00-H341-49 TESTIMONY NO: 1
June 22, 2000 p. 6-41, 65-163
WITNESSES (and
witness notations):
JEFFRESS, CHARLES N. (Assistant
Secretary, Occupational Safety and Health, DOL)
COHEN,
MURRAY L. (Chairman, Frontline Healthcare Workers Safety Foundation)
DALEY, KAREN A. (President, Massachusetts Nurses
Association; representing American Nurses Association)
ECK, ENID K. (Senior Consultant, HIV and Infectious
Disease, Kaiser Permanente)
THIEBAUD, LORRAINE A.
(registered nurse; representing Service Employees International Union)
LUNDSTROM, TAMMY (Dr.) (Medical Director, Epidemiology,
Detroit Medical Center; representing American Hospital Association)
STATEMENTS AND DISCUSSION:
Overview and merits of OSHA
revised compliance directive on bloodborne pathogens; need for and
recommendations regarding legislation to require use of safer devices to protect
health care workers from needlestick injuries; support for H.R.
1899; arguments in support of OSHA bloodborne pathogens standard.
Elaboration on OSHA compliance directive on bloodborne
pathogens and related issues.
CONTENT NOTATION:
Bloodborne pathogens and needlestick
injury prevention, OSHA compliance directive review
TESTIMONY
DESCRIPTORS:
KAISER FOUNDATION HEALTH PLAN; DEPARTMENT OF
LABOR
LOAD-DATE: July 6, 2001 
