In the United States, the government agency responsible for worker safety is the Occupational Safety and Health Administration otherwise known as OSHA.
OSHA’s Bloodborne Pathogens standard is a federal OSHA regulation (29 CFR 1910.1030) that prescribes safeguards to protect workers against the health hazards from exposure to blood and other potentially infectious materials, and to reduce their risk from this exposure. Example health hazards include but are not limited to Hepatitis B, Hepatitis C, HIV, Malaria, Brucellosis, Syphilis, West Nile Virus, etc.
BloodbornePathogenTraining.com has been in the OSHA Bloodborne Pathogen compliance space for over 12+ years and offers a full range of OSHA Bloodborne Pathogen compliance products from training and certification for an individual to full OSHA Bloodborne Pathogen compliance for organizations. We specialize in helping individuals and small to midsize organizations get OSHA Bloodborne Pathogen compliant in the most affordable, fastest, and easiest way possible.
Who Needs to Comply with OSHA Bloodborne Pathogens?
Anyone who could be "reasonably anticipated" to face regular exposure to blood or OPIM (other potentially infectious materials) as a result of performing their job duties.
This includes:
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Our individual training is for a single individual looking to obtain their OSHA Bloodborne Pathogen training certification to satisfy the training requirement under the OSHA Bloodborne Pathogen standard and to provide to an employer/organization as proof of training for compliance purposes.
If you are an organization looking to train your employees, please go to the Bloodborne Pathogens for Organizations section.
OSHA Bloodborne Pathogen Certification + Wallet Card
Print your OSHA Bloodborne Pathogen certification and wallet card immediately online upon successful completion of the course
OSHA Bloodborne Pathogen compliance for an organization revolves around protecting your workforce from the health hazards around exposure to blood and other potentially infectious materials (OPIM).
The OSHA Bloodborne Pathogen standards require that employers provide an annual awareness training to employees that have regular exposure to blood or other potentially infection materials (OPIM), have an exposure control plan to prevent and handle exposure incidents, and establish work practice and engineering controls to minimize potential exposure.
What is involved in becoming Bloodborne Pathogen compliant?
There are 3 parts to BBP compliance for an organization:
Bloodborne Pathogen Certification + Wallet Card
Each employee receives their own Bloodborne Pathogen certificate and wallet card immediately online upon successful completion of the course
Part 1 is handled through our organizational training which allows you to roll out training to your employees as a self paced online training that they can each take at their own schedule. Our system trains, tests, and generates a 1 year certificate for compliance record keeping.
Parts 2 and 3 are handled by our compliance documentation kit. At the same time your designated compliance officer is implementing the required documents, we are also training them through a "hands on learn by doing" approach. The theory behind our method is if your compliance officer built it, they will be able to maintain it going forward.
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