Exposure Determination & Covered Employees
Procedures for identifying job classifications, tasks, and employees with reasonably anticipated occupational exposure.

Universal Precautions & Work-Practice Controls
Standards for treating potentially infectious materials safely, minimizing contact, prohibiting unsafe practices, and using appropriate engineering controls.

Personal Protective Equipment & Housekeeping
Requirements for selecting and using protective equipment, cleaning and disinfecting surfaces, handling laundry, and disposing of contaminated materials.

Sharps Safety & Exposure Prevention
Guidance for needle and sharp-object handling, approved containers, safer devices, prohibited recapping, and reporting hazards or injuries. 

Vaccination & Post-Exposure Response
Procedures for offering vaccination when applicable, providing immediate evaluation and follow-up, documenting exposure, and protecting medical confidentiality.

Training, Records & Plan Review
Requirements for employee instruction, exposure and medical records, incident documentation, annual review, and evaluation of safer practices and equipment.

Who This Policy Is For

Designed for organizations whose employees may reasonably encounter blood or other potentially infectious materials while performing their work.

A strong fit for small and mid-sized organizations, nonprofits, growing employers, healthcare and social-service settings, emergency-response activities, custodial or maintenance operations, first-aid responsibilities, public-facing facilities, or other exposure-prone work, and leaders responsible for employee safety, training, medical follow-up, and regulatory compliance. 

How to Use This Template

Start with a professionally structured framework, then tailor it to your exposure risks, work practices, protective equipment, vaccination, and post-exposure procedures.

Customize the editable Word template with your organization’s exposure determination, covered employees, universal-precaution standards, engineering and work-practice controls, protective-equipment requirements, housekeeping and sharps procedures, vaccination process, post-exposure response, training, recordkeeping, and annual-review responsibilities. Coordinate it with related workplace-safety, personal-protective-equipment, incident-reporting, medical-records, first-aid, and waste-handling policies; train employees before exposure-prone work begins; and review the finalized policy as roles, tasks, equipment, exposure risks, or legal requirements change.