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Let's look for a moment at the specific personal protective equipment.
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Personal protective equipment is only as strong as you use it.
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If we don't know where it's at, and we're not putting it on because we can't find it,
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it's absolutely useless.
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You cannot get into a rescue situation, or cleaning up a blood-spill or vomit,
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and then say, "goodness, I guess I should have found my personal protective equipment,"
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"it would have helped a lot."
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We gotta know where it's at.
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And if it's something where, like in an adult foster care home, a child day care center,
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if it's in a healthcare setting,
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one of the things I always did as a paramedic,
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is I just made sure I had gloves on my person at all times.
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You never know when you're going to see blood or body fluids and have to either decontaminate it,
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or help somebody in an urgent matter.
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Have the PPE with you, have it available to use so that you don't get caught behind the 8-ball.
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Now, specifically, first aid kits have to meet a certain safety standard in almost every place around the world.
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Make sure that that first aid kit has the stuff in it it needs.
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Specifically, not only the first aid supplies,
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but your personal protective equipment.
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Including: gloves,
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a CPR shield with a one-way valve,
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a face shield, eye shield, combination,
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and in some cases, even an apron, or a gown.
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Now, let's talk about work practice controls, as I grab my cup of coffee, here.
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We can't mix food and drink with blood or blood product in the same vicinity.
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In other words, break rooms, where they have a refrigerator, and you're storing your sandwich, or your lunches,
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you can't store blood, or blood product, in that same refrigerator, they have to be separated.
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And then separated also, with some sort of sticker or label,
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that shows that there's bio-hazard in that particular refrigerator.
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So, I know sometimes we get a little lax,
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we know that the blood, or blood product, is in its' own container,
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there's no mixing.
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But, it's against the CDC rules, and we need to make sure that we're not causing risk to ourselves or others
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by breaking those rules.
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Now work practice controls are also going to encourage us not to do certain types of activities,
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when we're in particular high risk areas, like
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putting on cosmetics, smoking, eating, drinking,
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all where there could be blood splatter, spray, or contamination.
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These are ways that we can get the blood, or blood product, into our mouth,
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by actual getting it into a mucus membrane,
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by simply taking a drink.
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