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Medical term Safety and Compliance
Safety devices that remove or isolate the hazard itself (OSHA), for example a sharps container or a needle with a built-in shield.
Related terms
- OSHAOccupational Safety and Health Administration: part of the U.S. Department of Labor; it writes and enforces…
- sharpsItems that can pierce or cut skin: needles, lancets, broken glass. Discard used ones immediately in a sharps…
- sharps containerClosable, puncture-resistant, leakproof container with a biohazard label for used sharps, kept upright…
- doffingTaking off PPE: gloves, then eye protection, gown, and mask or respirator last, followed by hand hygiene.
- donningPutting on PPE: hand hygiene, gown, mask or respirator, eye protection, then gloves over the gown cuffs.
- droplet precautionsA mask put on when entering the room of a patient with a droplet-spread infection such as influenza or…
- droplet transmissionSpread by larger respiratory droplets from coughing, sneezing or talking that fall within a short distance…
- exposure control planThe employer's written OSHA plan naming jobs with exposure, how the standard is carried out, and how…
- exposure incidentBlood or OPIM reaching the eye, mouth, another mucous membrane or broken skin, or entering through a…
- false imprisonmentHolding or restraining someone against their will with no legal right to do so.
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