Correctional Health Care Workers

Lower Your Workers' Chance of Exposure

By supporting your workers, you can help lower their chance of exposure:

• As a manager or administrator, you must provide them with an updated and site-specific Exposure Control Plan. The plan must address proper training, work practices, equipment, and supplies for protection against exposures to blood and other body fluids*.^1,3



• As a manager or administrator, you should have a system in place to promote reporting, so that your workers will more likely report exposures to blood and other body fluids*.²



• As a manager or administrator, you must ensure the use of safe work practices.¹

* “Other body fluids” includes other potentially infectious material, such as semen, vaginal secretions, cerebrospinal, synovial, pleural, peritoneal, pericardial, and amniotic fluids, and any other body fluid that contains visible blood.