New Hampshire Code of Administrative Rules
He - Department of Health and Human Services
Subtitle He-P - Former Division of Public Health Services
Chapter He-P 800 - RESIDENTIAL CARE AND HEALTH FACILITY RULES
Part He-P 808 - LABORATORIES AND LABORATORY SERVICES RULES
Section He-P 808.19 - Infection Control

(a) All laboratories shall develop and implement an infection control program.

(b) The laboratory's infection control program shall:

(c) The infection control program shall address at a minimum the:

(d) Personnel infected with a disease or illness transmissible through contact, fomites, or droplets shall not have any contact with patients until they are no longer contagious.

(e) Only sterile equipment and containers such as needles, syringes, test tubes, and urine containers used for cultures shall be used when collecting specimens.

(f) The handling, storing, transporting, or disposing of items specified as infectious waste in Env-Sw 904.01 shall be done in accordance with Env-Sw 904.

(g) There shall be no use of tobacco products, smoking, eating, drinking, or applying of cosmetics in the areas where specimen collection takes place or where specimens are processed in accordance with 29 CFR § 1910.1030.