HIPAA/OSHA/Blood Borne Pathogen Trained & Compliant

These rights include:

• The right to get a copy of your information.
• The right to make sure it is correct.
• The right to know who has seen it.
• The right to see and receive copies upon the request of the information in your medical and other health records maintained by your health care providers and health plans.
• The right to examine and obtain a copy of your health records.
• The right to direct a covered entity to transmit to a third party an electronic copy of your protected health information in an electronic health record.

The Privacy Rule protects individually identifiable health information relating to the past, present, or future condition of a patient, treatment for the condition, payment for the treatment, and any other information that could be used to identify the subject of the health information maintained in the same designated record.

The mission of the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) is to assure safe and healthy working conditions for working men and women by developing, setting and enforcing standards and by providing outreach, education, training and compliance assistance. Under the law, employers have the responsibility to provide a safe workplace. 

OSHA's Bloodborne Pathogens Standard as amended pursuant to the 2000 Needlestick Safety and Prevention Act. It is a regulation that prescribes safeguards to protect workers against health hazards related to bloodborne pathogens. It has provisions for exposure control plans, engineering and work practice controls, hepatitis B vaccinations, hazard communication and training, and recordkeeping. The standard imposes requirements on employers of workers who may be exposed to blood or other potentially infectious materials such as certain tissues and body fluids.