Policy Text
University of California, San Francisco
Police Department General Orders
4.4 Bloodborne Pathogen Rule/Exposure Control Plan
4.4.1 Purpose (Revised: 2/1/09)
A. A major goal of the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) is to
regulate facilities where work is carried out to promote safe work practices in an effort to
minimize the incidence of illness and injury experienced by employees. Relative to this
goal, OSHA has enacted the Bloodborne Pathogens Standard, codified as 29 CFR
1910.1030. The purpose of the Bloodborne Pathogens Standard is to “reduce
occupational exposure to hepatitis B virus (HBV), human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)
and other bloodborne pathogens” that employees may encounter in their workplace. It is
the policy of the UCSF Police Department to minimize risk of bloodborne pat hogen
exposure by employees. General principles that should be followed when working with
bloodborne pathogens include:
1. Minimizing all exposure to bloodborne pathogens
2. Never underestimating the risk of exposure to bloodborne pathogens
3. Implementing as many work practice and engineering controls as possible to
eliminate or minimize employee exposure to bloodborne pathogens.
B The following Exposure Control Plan has been implemented to meet the letter and intent
of the OSHA Bloodborne Pathogens Standard. The objective of this plan is two -fold:
1. To protect employees from the health hazards associated with bloodborne
pathogens
2. To provide appropriate treatment and counseling should an employee be exposed
to bloodborne pathogens.