2022 Manitoba Workplace Safety and Health Act and Regulation

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PART 39 
HEALTH CARE FACILITIES
Application
39.1
This Part applies to every workplace that is a health care facility.
Safe work procedures
39.2
An employer must
(a) develop and implement safe work procedures in accordance
with sections 39.3 to 39.6;
(b) train workers in the safe work procedures; and
(c) ensure that workers comply with the safe work procedures .
Safe work procedures for infectious materials
39.3(1) If a worker at a health care facility may be exposed to infectious
materials, an employer must develop and implement safe work
procedures to eliminate or, so far as is reasonably practicable, reduce
the worker’s risk of exposure to infectious materials.
39.3(2) The safe work procedures on infectious materials must include the
following:
(a) procedures for storing, handling, using and disposing of
infectious materials;
(b) procedures for identifying workers at the workplace who may
be exposed to infectious materials;
(c) infection control measures at the workplace, such as:
(i) vaccination,
(ii) engineering controls,
(iii) personal protective equipment,
(iv) personal hygiene,
(v) management of the environment and equipment,
(vi) patient accommodation,
(vii) precautions for blood-borne pathogens, and
(viii) infection control practices based on specific modes of
transmission that may be used in situations where certain
diseases or micro-organisms require extra caution;

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(d) procedures to be followed if any of the following occurs:
(i) there has been a spill or leak of infectious material,
(ii) a worker has been exposed to infectious material,
(iii) a worker believes that he or she has been exposed to
infectious material;
(e) procedures to be followed when a worker has been exposed to
blood or bodily fluids;
(f) procedures for cleaning, disinfecting or disposing of
clothing, personal protective equipment or other equipment
contaminated with an infectious material;
(g) procedures for investigating and documenting any incident
where a worker is exposed to infectious material; and
(h) procedures for investigating and documenting any occurrence
of an occupationally transmitted infection or infectious disease.