Pro Bloodborne

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The Exposure Incident.

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Now, don't confuse "exposure incidents" with "an exposure."

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Exposure is literally: any time you are in the vicinity of blood or body fluid.

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An exposure incident mean it got into your body or onto your body, even if that skin was intact.

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If this event occurs, it becomes an incident and there are some steps that need to be followed.

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The first step is to go and decontaminate as fast as possible.

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If it's in your eyes, nose, mouth, or other mucus membrane, the goal is to get it out of there.

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Wash it out with water, flush it out. If all you have is coffee or soda or something else,

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take a mouthful swish it around, spit it out if it's in your mouth.

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If you're by a sink, get it in your nose, blow it back out.

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The goal is to get the contamination out of your body or off your body as fast as possible.

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Check for any other areas of contamination, including your clothing.

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If there's clothing that's saturated with blood, get the clothing off and decontaminate the skin.

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Then, after you've decontaminated, it's time to go find a supervisor or your employer,

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and make them aware that you just had an exposure to blood or body fluid.

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Explain what happened, where it happened, why it happened, how it happened,

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and what you did to decontaminate afterwards.

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They're gonna take specific information from you, and who it was you were exposed by,

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or what it was you were exposed by. And then, from that point its time to actually fill out the basic

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information that's required by law to be filled out and turned in by the employer to start the paper

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trail on this incident.

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And then the goal is to get you to medical evaluation and follow-up.

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Now, medical evaluation is done by a professional.

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You'll probably be better off by going to an emergency room or hospital that specifically deals with exposure,

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the follow-up of that exposure, and then any treatment prophylactically or reactively depending on the amount of exposure and what happened.

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You only have about two hours from the time it occurs to the time you get that medical evaluation to

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begin a prophylactic treatment in order to maximize your best proactive anti-retroviral treatment.

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Now, this isn't to cause a panic, this isn't to make you afraid to work.

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This is to empower to you be able to know what you can do, in your workplace, to prevent, to react, and to follow up,

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whenever you have to deal with a bloodborne exposure.