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2) Cleaning up blood or other body fluids on items and equipment such as
handcuffs, shoes, clothing, seats, or pens.
3) Conducting searches of persons and/or their property for narcotics.
b. Employees shall wear disposable nitrile gloves (or issued equivalent) when handling
substances suspected to be hazardous drugs.
3. Contact with People
a. After contact with a subject who is bleeding or vomiting, an employee must remove
his disposable gloves and wash his hands thoroughly with soap and water. If there are
no washing facilities available, the employee will use their issued hand sanitizer. The
employee will then wash their hands with soap and hot water as soon as possible.
b. Employees shall not use any sink or washing facility used for food preparation when
washing their hands after an exposure incident.
c. Extreme caution should be used when searching prisoners or dealing with people in
environments (e.g., accident scenes, drug searches) where sharp objects and body
fluids may be reasonably encountered. Sharp objects should be pushed out of the
suspect鈥檚 pockets. An officer should not reach into an individual鈥檚 pocket.
d. Officers will transport only one prisoner when the prisoner is contaminated with
blood or body fluids. [71.3.1]
4. Handling Contaminated Objects
a. Employees must use extreme caution when handling any sharp object. Syringe
needles will not be bent, recapped, or otherwise manipulated in any way. Objects
(whether disposed of, or kept as evidence) shall be placed in safety containers
provided by the Department and handled in accordance with OPS-485, "Property and
Evidence".
b. Objects contaminated with blood must be disposed of properly. They will be placed
in biohazard bags and marked to identify them as potentially infectious materials.
c. If an officer鈥檚 uniform becomes soiled by blood or body fluids, it must be changed as
soon as possible. Personnel should bring an extra uniform to work.
NOTE: See Section III. C. ("Clean Up and De-Contamination of an Exposure") for how
to package and discard contaminated items.
d. If an employee's clothing becomes exposed to hazardous drugs, the clothing should
be discarded as soon as possible. (Section III.C.)
5. Precautions at Major Crime Scenes
a. Employees should not eat, drink, or smoke while at a crime scene.
b. Wear latex gloves (or their issued equivalent). Any employee with a cut, abrasion, or
any other break in the skin on the hands should never handle blood, body fluids, or
any evidence which may be contaminated without protection (i.e., latex gloves).
c. Protective gloves should be changed when they become torn or heavily soiled. If the
gloves are contaminated with blood or body fluids, they must be treated as a
biohazardous material and disposed of accordingly.
d. Hands should be washed after gloves are removed, even if the gloves appear to be intact.
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