Unanticipated Exposure to Blood and the 200 Log

BURBANK - Recently, COR posed a question about how an employer in an office setting should respond if an employee has an unexpected exposure to blood (other than his own). The answer attorney Robert Peterson gave at one of his Cal-OSHA seminars was to offer the janitor sympathy and hepatitis B vaccine.That answer set COR to wondering if the exposure had to be listed in the employer's Log 200. An experienced industrial hygienist in the private sector said no, because the vaccine would be considere