A bloodborne pathogen is a disease that can be present in your blood or your other bodily fluids. Considering if your job is to clean up after people who could have these diseases, you want to do your best to not mix blood with them. If you do, you are not going to have a good time. If you get AIDS -also known as HIV-,  you're going to get sores all over you, you're going to always be extremely tired, and you're going to have pneumonia among other terrible flu-like symptoms (it is not fun). If you get HBV, also know as Hepatitis B, you are most likely going to lose your liver, among other painful things.

Both of the previously mentioned diseases can cause death, and even if you were able to get a-fixing it would probably cost more your entire bank account, leading you to starve to death on the streets after having to go through all that disease, at that point you would probably wish you just skipped the cure and died to begin with. Thankfully, there is a better solution to this conundrum, and that is taking every precaution you can to not get the disease to begin with. You can take the basic, common sense precaution of wearing gloves and using a rag while cleaning a bloody spill, rather than your bare hands. You can also using some lengthy apparatus as to not touch the mess, and either disposing or cleaning said tool after you finished. Make sure to dispose of your gloves, rags, and whatever else you used to clean the filth in a labeled container specifically made for containing biohazards.

You would think that these methods would be obvious to even a dunce of dunces, but what can I say other then that America has been breaking the records; creating people with such a staggering iq that you would be astounded that they can remember to inhale and exhale without choking to death. Because of this, it is important for both employers and other employees to let the less fortunate know about the proper safety protocols, along with what exactly blood pathogens are, and what the dangers are of contracting these blood-borne diseases. If they don't, then who knows how many more employees are going to have to be hired in order to clean up the mushy remains of the other employees.