Okla. Stat. tit. 63, § 63-1-502.1
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Communicable diseases - Universal precautions - Rules
Official statutory text
and regulations - Risk exposure.
A. All agencies and organizations that regularly employ
emergency medical technicians, paramedics, firefighters, peace
officers, as defined in Section 648 of Title 21 of the Oklahoma
Statutes, correctional officers and employees, or health care
workers, all mental health or intellectual disability treatment or
evaluation programs that employ persons involved with providing care
for patients, the J.D. McCarty Center for Children with
Developmental Disabilities, and all juvenile institutions of the
Department of Human Services shall implement the universal
precautions for the prevention of the transmission of communicable
diseases published by the Centers for Disease Control, U.S. Public
Health Service, in the Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, Volume
36, Number 2S or as subsequently amended.
B. The State Commissioner of Health shall promulgate rules and
guidelines that will implement a system of notification of emergency
medical technicians, paramedics, firefighters, health care workers,
funeral directors, peace officers, and any person who in good faith
renders aid in accordance with the Good Samaritan Act relating to
risk exposures during health care activities, emergency response
activities or funeral preparations. Risk exposure shall be defined
by the State Commissioner of Health to be exposure that is
epidemiologically demonstrated to have the potential for
transmitting a communicable disease.
C. The Board of Mental Health and Substance Abuse Services,
Department of Human Services, Oklahoma Cerebral Palsy Commission,
and State Board of Corrections shall each promulgate rules,
guidelines or policies to provide for such notification of risk
exposures to persons employed by such agencies.
A. All agencies and organizations that regularly employ
emergency medical technicians, paramedics, firefighters, peace
officers, as defined in Section 648 of Title 21 of the Oklahoma
Statutes, correctional officers and employees, or health care
workers, all mental health or intellectual disability treatment or
evaluation programs that employ persons involved with providing care
for patients, the J.D. McCarty Center for Children with
Developmental Disabilities, and all juvenile institutions of the
Department of Human Services shall implement the universal
precautions for the prevention of the transmission of communicable
diseases published by the Centers for Disease Control, U.S. Public
Health Service, in the Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, Volume
36, Number 2S or as subsequently amended.
B. The State Commissioner of Health shall promulgate rules and
guidelines that will implement a system of notification of emergency
medical technicians, paramedics, firefighters, health care workers,
funeral directors, peace officers, and any person who in good faith
renders aid in accordance with the Good Samaritan Act relating to
risk exposures during health care activities, emergency response
activities or funeral preparations. Risk exposure shall be defined
by the State Commissioner of Health to be exposure that is
epidemiologically demonstrated to have the potential for
transmitting a communicable disease.
C. The Board of Mental Health and Substance Abuse Services,
Department of Human Services, Oklahoma Cerebral Palsy Commission,
and State Board of Corrections shall each promulgate rules,
guidelines or policies to provide for such notification of risk
exposures to persons employed by such agencies.
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