OSHA Responds to Safe Needle Demands

Union pressure has created political pressure in Washington, DC, as well as Sacramento---ramping up demands for safer needles to prevent needlestick injuries. Cal-OSHA is at work on proposed revisions of the bloodborne pathogens standard even as Assembly Member Carole Migden's AB 1208 chugs along.Fed-OSHA has been drawn into the crusade by U.S. Sen Barbara Boxer, whose interest stems from pleas by the Service Employees International Union (SEIU), which represents more than 600,000 heal