To ensure compliance with the Occupational Safety and Health Administration's (OSHA) Bloodborne Pathogens Standard (29 CFR 1910.1030), a dentist or any healthcare provider that has employees with the potential for exposure to blood or OPIM must take the following steps:...
Sterilization and the Packaging and Storing of Wrapped Instruments Sterilization is a method that eradicates, eliminates, or inactivates all types of life, especially microorganisms like fungi, bacteria, spores, and other biological agents like viruses found on a surface or object....
 Most of us already know that OSHA plays a major role in setting and enforcing standards that protect employees from all sorts of workplace hazards. In healthcare and dentistry there are several standards that apply and by identifying them hopefully...
