Engineering and Work Practice Controls
Personal Hygiene
Personal hygiene involves using good judgment when working in areas with the potential for exposure. Examples of good personal hygiene practices include:
- Minimizing splashing, spraying, spattering and generation of droplets when attending to an injured person.
- Refraining from eating, drinking, smoking, applying cosmetics or lip balms, or handling contact lenses where there is a reasonable likelihood of occupational exposure.
- Keeping food or drink away from refrigerators, freezers, shelves cabinets or on countertops or bench tops where blood or other potentially infectious materials are present.
- Refraining from mouth pipetting/suctioning of blood or other potentially infectious materials.