The proposed amendments to Title 8 5193 for Bloodborne Pathogens are now in the hands of the Cal-OSH Standards Board. The Division of Occupational Safety and Health (DOSH) worked on them all summer, with the help of an advisory committee, and sent them to the board on Oct. 6.Because of the exigencies of the new safer needle law (AB 1208, now Ch. 999 of 1998), the board must adopt an emergency revision of 5193 by Jan. 15, 1999. Executive Officer John MacLeod briefed the board on a propos
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