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title: "OSHA Bloodborne Standard — Commercial Cleaning Glossary"
description: "OSHA 29 CFR 1910.1030 governs how cleaning crews respond to blood, body fluid, and biohazard incidents. Required training, PPE, and exposure-control planning."
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 GLOSSARY · Certifications & Standards 

#  OSHA Bloodborne Pathogen Standard 29 CFR 1910.1030 

 The federal OSHA regulation governing occupational exposure to blood and other potentially infectious materials. Applies to cleaning crews responding to medical, biohazard, or trauma scenes. 

## Detailed definition

The OSHA Bloodborne Pathogen Standard, codified at 29 CFR 1910.1030, is the federal regulation that defines how employers must protect workers from occupational exposure to blood and other potentially infectious materials (OPIM). It was originally written for healthcare workers but applies to anyone whose job has a reasonable expectation of exposure — and that includes cleaning crews who respond to medical-office spills, accident scenes, restroom incidents, dumpster contamination, and post-trauma cleanups.

What the standard requires:

* **Written Exposure Control Plan.** Every employer covered by the standard must have a written plan that identifies which job classifications have exposure risk, the tasks that create exposure, and the protocols to control it. The plan must be reviewed annually and updated when tasks change.
* **Initial and annual training.** Workers must be trained on the hazards, the modes of transmission for HIV, HBV, HCV, and other bloodborne pathogens, the use of PPE, the post-exposure procedure, and the contents of the exposure control plan.
* **PPE provided at no cost.** Gloves, eye protection, gowns, and respiratory protection appropriate to the task. The employer supplies and replaces it.
* **Hepatitis B vaccination offered.** At no cost, within 10 working days of assignment to a covered position. The employee can decline in writing, but the offer is required.
* **Sharps and waste handling.** Biohazard-labeled containers, proper transport and disposal procedures, decontamination of contaminated surfaces with an EPA-registered disinfectant on the bloodborne-pathogen list.
* **Recordkeeping.** Training records (3 years) and medical records (duration of employment plus 30 years) for each covered worker.

For CCSD, this standard applies any time we’re called into a medical office, a dental practice, a restroom incident involving body fluid, or a vehicle/property contamination event. Our protocol uses the PPE, EPA-registered hypochlorite or peroxide chemistry, and waste handling the standard requires. For a true crime-scene or mass-casualty event, we refer to a credentialed biohazard remediation firm.

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## See also

* [ EPA List N ](/glossary/epa-list-n/)
* [ NaOCl ](/glossary/sodium-hypochlorite/)
* [ SDS ](/glossary/sds/)
* [ ULV ](/glossary/ulv-fogging/)

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## External references

* [ OSHA 29 CFR 1910.1030  (opens in new tab) ](https://www.osha.gov/laws-regs/regulations/standardnumber/1910/1910.1030)

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