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Workplace Safety Center
The Workplace Safety Center shares practical guidance on workplace spill and bodily-fluid cleanup, including kit contents, absorbents, protective equipment, and cleanup procedures for different settings.
Articles discuss relevant safety requirements where applicable. The appropriate supplies and procedures depend on the material involved and your workplace’s own risk assessment; purchasing a kit alone does not establish OSHA compliance.
Workplace Safety Center
Spill Kit Inspection Checklist: What a Monthly Check Has to Prove
A monthly spill kit check should prove four things, not just tick a box: where the kit is, that it is complete, that every item still works, and who checked....
Spill Kits for Trucks: What DOT Requires You to Do, and Why the Kit Is Yours to Specify
No federal rule lists a spill kit as required truck equipment, yet three DOT duties make one unavoidable. 49 CFR 393.95, 177.854, Part 130 and the 12-hour and 30-day reports,...
OSHA Spill Report Form: Why a Bodily Fluid Incident Is Three Records, Not One Sheet of Paper
There is no OSHA spill report form. The standard prescribes record contents, not a format, and splits one bodily fluid incident into three records with three retention clocks. Here is...
Bloodborne Pathogen Exposure Control Plan: A Fill-In Template, and the Part Generic Plans Always Leave Blank
OSHA 29 CFR 1910.1030(c)(1) sets out exactly what a bloodborne pathogen exposure control plan must contain. Here are the seven sections, the hepatitis B offer clock, the mandatory Appendix A...
OSHA PPE Requirements for Bodily Fluid Cleanup: What Is Required, and the Step Most People Skip
OSHA does not approve PPE kits. It requires equipment that keeps blood off your skin and clothes for the whole job, and that comes off before you leave the work...
Bloodborne Pathogen Training Requirements: Who Is Covered, How Often, and What the Session Must Contain
Who legally needs bloodborne pathogen training, how often it is due, the fourteen elements 1910.1030(g)(2) requires in the session, and the records you keep for three years. Name your responders,...
Norovirus Outbreak Cleanup: Who Goes Home, Who You Notify, and When You Reopen
Norovirus in a food business is a Food Code problem, not an OSHA one. Who must be excluded, how long for, who you notify, when you may reopen - and...
How to Clean Up a Blood Spill: A Timed Procedure for Real Conditions
A blood spill has a clock on it: OSHA requires decontamination immediately or as soon as feasible. Here is the timed procedure step by step, plus what changes in a...
Biohazard Waste Disposal Rules: What Actually Goes in a Red Bag
There is no federal medical waste rule. OSHA governs containment and labelling, DOT governs transport packaging, and your state decides where the waste goes. Here is the red bag test...
OSHA Eyewash Station Requirements: What the Standard Actually Says
OSHA's eyewash rule is one sentence in 29 CFR 1910.151(c) - and none of the familiar numbers are in it. What suitable and immediate really mean, the one place OSHA...
OSHA First Aid Kit Requirements: What the Rule Says and Where a Cleanup Kit Takes Over
OSHA publishes no required first aid kit contents list - the whole rule is three sentences and the kit appendix is non-mandatory. Here is what 1910.151 actually requires, why no...
Oil Spill Kit Absorbents Explained: Pads, Socks, Booms and Loose Granular
Pads, socks, booms or loose granular? A format-by-format guide to oil spill kit absorbents: what they are made of under EPA's sorbent rule, when you can wring and reuse them,...