Exposure Determination

EXPOSURE DETERMINATION

An occupational exposure is defined as: any reasonable anticipated skin, eye, mucous membrane, or parental (e.g., needle stick, cut, abrasion, instrument puncture) contact with blood or other potentially infectious material (OPIM) such as saliva that may result from the performance of an employee's duties.

All members of the Cerritos College Dental Hygiene Department (students, full and part time faculty, dentists) will be classified as OSHA category I for risk of occupational exposure and shall follow procedures for infection control.

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