Needlestick Advisory Committee Takes up Contentious Issues

OAKLAND -- Just a couple of months after the landmark changes to California's Bloodborne Pathogens standard became effective, more than 100 members of the health care community and related interests gathered at the Harris State Building here to hash out the residual issues surrounding the regulation.The daylong meeting was called by the Division of Occupational Safety and Health (DOSH) in part because the OSH Standards Board expressed dissatisfaction with the way the Division handled public commen