AR 5141.23
Students
Infectious Disease
Prevention
Exposure to Blood During Classroom Instruction
Before students work with blood, blood products or
other body fluids, the teacher shall explain the potentially hazardous nature
of blood and body fluids in the transmission of various agents from one person
to another, and the specific procedures and safety precautions to be used in
the lesson.
The following precautions shall be used when students
are working with blood or other body fluids:
1. Before
and after exposure to blood or other body fluids, students shall wash their
hands with soap and water, and cover any existing cut, wound or open sore with a sterile dressing.
2. Students
shall wear gloves or other personal protective equipment as appropriate.
3. Blood
typing or similar experiments may be conducted by teacher demonstrations. When
being performed individually, students shall work
with their own blood or use prepackaged ABO/Rh blood cell kits that have vials
of blood previously tested for transmissible agents.
a. Students shall use individual sterile
lancets for finger punctures and shall not reuse them.
b. Before the finger is punctured, it
shall be wiped with a piece of cotton that
has been immersed in alcohol.
c. If bleeding persists after the finger
is punctured, the student shall apply a sterile bandage using moderate
pressure.
4. Lancets
and any other materials contaminated with blood or body fluids shall be
discarded into a solution consisting of one part bleach to 10 parts water (
5. At
the end of the class, surfaces shall be wiped with alcohol or a solution of one
part bleach to 10 parts water.
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