Cleaning employees and staff with knowledge about bloodborne pathogens can save lives and keep their environments safer.  Reacting to messes, cleaning after others, and keeping a safe work environment are done often by designated people.  Although one employee may be responsible for reacting to certain messes, each employee can play an important role to restore cleanliness safely.

Informing employees and knowing some basic cleaning protocols greatly assist the staff, cleaning employees and passersby.  Diseases or viruses can be transferred from the bodily fluids of infected individuals. Wearing gloves and some simple precautions can greatly reduce the potential for personal harm.  Cleaning soiled bedding or collecting a littered needle properly and with care can go a long way.

An Universal Precaution is taken, which responds to bodily fluids from each and every person as if they are potentially infectious.  An OSHA Exposure Control Plan is a written plan for responding to these potentially health-threatening messes.  Incidents that do occur are to be documented and kept for three years.  The precautions, plan, and incident data are important for employees' proper reaction, their awareness, and the prevention of infections.