OSHA's Bloodborne Pathogens Standard
Cry Wolf Quotes
[The proposed bloodborne pathogen standards are] too expensive, a waste of resources and overkill.
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The California Hospital Association, which represents 467 of the state's hospitals.
In 1991, dentists across America discovered that OSHA had ‘outlawed the tooth fairy.’ In a fit of regulatory zeal to combat the spread of AIDS and other communicable diseases through blood-borne pathogens, the rule-writers at OSHA had determined to make it a violation to allow any item that had been in contact with bodily fluids to leave a medical facility except in a biohazards container.
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Rep. Charlie Norwood (R-GA) in an op-ed for The Hill.
Some of those things are well founded. Some are just crazy….[you have to] dress up like Darth Vader whenever you see a patient.
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Peter B. Sherer, a hematologist in Montgomery County.
[Do we really need] strict regulations or to go in with fines?
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A spokesperson for the American Hospital Association.
