410 IAC 1-4-6 - Facility operator responsibilities
Authority: IC 16-41-11-9
Affected: IC 16-41-11
Sec. 6.
(a) An
individual or entity that is a facility operator shall comply with the
following:
(1) Inform all health care workers
and covered individuals whose professional, employment, training, or volunteer
activities or duties are performed at or on behalf of the facility, that it is
strongly recommended by the department that all persons who have reason to
believe they are at risk of HIV infection should know their HIV
status.
(2) Inform all health care
workers that it is strongly recommended by the department that all those:
(A) who perform procedures during which there
is a recognized risk of percutaneous injury to the health care worker, and, if
such injury occurs, the health care worker's blood may contact the patient's
body cavity, subcutaneous tissue, or mucous membranes; and
(B) who do not have serologic evidence of
immunity to HBV from vaccination or from previous infection should know their
HBsAg status and, if that is positive, should also know their HBeAg
status.
(3) Ensure that
the training described in the Indiana occupational safety and health
administration's bloodborne pathogens standards (as found in
29 CFR
1910.1030) is provided to all covered
individuals whose professional, employment, training, or volunteer activities
or duties are performed at or on behalf of the facility.
(4) Ensure that a record is maintained, as
required under the Indiana occupational safety and health administration's
bloodborne pathogens standards (as found in
29 CFR
1910.1030) of an individual's participation
in the training that is provided. The record shall be made available to the
department for inspection upon request.
(5) Ensure that each covered individual whose
professional, employment, training, or volunteer activities or duties are
performed at or on behalf of the facility, is provided appropriate equipment
and expendables needed to implement the precautions required under section 8 of
this rule and under the Indiana occupational safety and health administration's
bloodborne pathogens standards (as found in
29 CFR
1910.1030) .
(6) Require all health care workers whose
professional, employment, training, or volunteer activities or duties are
performed at or on behalf of the facility to provide evidence of compliance
with the continuing universal precautions education requirements contained in
section 7.1 of this rule.
(b) The operator of a facility, if providing
services to patients or the public in which there is a risk of skin, eye,
mucous membrane, or parenteral contact to human blood or other potentially
infectious materials, shall display, or make available to the public, a
description of compliance with the requirements contained in subsection
(a)(6).
(c) The operator of a
facility, if providing services to patients or the public in which there is a
risk of skin, eye, mucous membrane, or parenteral contact to human blood or
other potentially infectious materials, shall display, or make available to the
public, written materials prepared or approved by the department explaining
universal precautions and patients' rights under this rule. These materials
shall include information on how to report violations of universal precautions
and shall include information regarding the department's duties to investigate.
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