OSHA Bloodborne Pathogens Standard (BPS) requires the use of appropriate commercially available and safe engineering controls to reduce workers’ exposure to bloodborne pathogens. The OSHA Bloodborne Pathogens Standard (BPS) requires the use of appropriate commercially available and safe engineering controls to reduce workers’ exposure to bloodborne pathogens. Employers must document the engineering controls they consider in their Exposure Control Plan (ECP) once a year. But suppose you decide an engineering control is appropriate and then find out you can’t get the device, for example, because the vendor doesn’t have it in stock? The decision to use the device is sitting in your ECP. So […]