Section 410IAC1-4-6. Facility operator responsibilities

   (a) An individual or entity that is a facility operator shall comply with the following:

(1) Inform all health care workers and covered individuals whose professional, employment, training, or volunteer activities or duties are performed at or on behalf of the facility, that it is strongly recommended by the department that all persons who have reason to believe they are at risk of HIV infection should know their HIV status.

(2) Inform all health care workers that it is strongly recommended by the department that all those:

(A) who perform procedures during which there is a recognized risk of percutaneous injury to the health care worker, and, if such injury occurs, the health care worker's blood may contact the patient's body cavity, subcutaneous tissue, or mucous membranes; and

(B) who do not have serologic evidence of immunity to HBV from vaccination or from previous infection should know their HBsAg status and, if that is positive, should also know their HBeAg status.

(3) Ensure that the training described in the Indiana occupational safety and health administration's bloodborne pathogens standards (as found in 29 CFR 1910.1030) is provided to all covered individuals whose professional, employment, training, or volunteer activities or duties are performed at or on behalf of the facility.

(4) Ensure that a record is maintained, as required under the Indiana occupational safety and health administration's bloodborne pathogens standards (as found in 29 CFR 1910.1030) of an individual's participation in the training that is provided. The record shall be made available to the department for inspection upon request.

(5) Ensure that each covered individual whose professional, employment, training, or volunteer activities or duties are performed at or on behalf of the facility, is provided appropriate equipment and expendables needed to implement the precautions required under section 8 of this rule and under the Indiana occupational safety and health administration's bloodborne pathogens standards (as found in 29 CFR 1910.1030).

(6) Require all health care workers whose professional, employment, training, or volunteer activities or duties are performed at or on behalf of the facility to provide evidence of compliance with the continuing universal precautions education requirements contained in section 7.1 of this rule.

  (b) The operator of a facility, if providing services to patients or the public in which there is a risk of skin, eye, mucous membrane, or parenteral contact to human blood or other potentially infectious materials, shall display, or make available to the public, a description of compliance with the requirements contained in subsection (a)(6).

  (c) The operator of a facility, if providing services to patients or the public in which there is a risk of skin, eye, mucous membrane, or parenteral contact to human blood or other potentially infectious materials, shall display, or make available to the public, written materials prepared or approved by the department explaining universal precautions and patients' rights under this rule. These materials shall include information on how to report violations of universal precautions and shall include information regarding the department's duties to investigate. (Indiana State Department of Health; 410 IAC 1-4-6; filed Oct 6, 1989, 4:20 p.m.: 13 IR 280; filed Nov 22, 1993, 5:00 p.m.: 17 IR 756; readopted filed Jul 11, 2001, 2:23 p.m.: 24 IR 4234; readopted filed May 22, 2007, 1:44 p.m.: 20070613-IR-410070141RFA; readopted filed Sep 11, 2013, 3:19 p.m.: 20131009-IR-410130346RFA)