OSHA's Bloodborne Pathogens Standard
Cry Wolf Quotes
[The proposed bloodborne pathogen standards are] too expensive, a waste of resources and overkill.
In 1991, dentists across America discovered that OSHA had ‘outlawed the tooth fairy.’ In a fit of regulatory zeal to combat the spread of AIDS and other communicable diseases through blood-borne pathogens, the rule-writers at OSHA had determined to make it a violation to allow any item that had been in contact with bodily fluids to leave a medical facility except in a biohazards container.
Some of those things are well founded. Some are just crazy….[you have to] dress up like Darth Vader whenever you see a patient.
It's definitely driving doctors to find other jobs. Doctors feel they aren't being allowed to practice medicine because they are so overwhelmed with administrative aspects.
