Oklahoma Administrative Code
Title 310 - Oklahoma State Department of Health
Chapter 555 - Notification of Communicable Disease Risk Exposure
Section 310:555-1-1 - Purpose

The rules in this Chapter implement a system of notification for risk exposures which are capable of transmitting an occupational risk disease to health care workers, emergency responders, funeral workers, and Good Samaritans. The employers of those classes of workers (excluding Good Samaritans) are required by federal OSHA standards ( 29 CFR Part 1910.1030 ) to have management policies and systems to handle such exposures. Only workers at health care facilities have access to patient charts and laboratory results; further, these facilities have systems to handle such exposures. Therefore, in order to facilitate access to source patient information, the notification system established in this Chapter shall apply to risk exposures to health care workers, emergency responders, funeral workers, Good Samaritans rendering aid occurring outside of employment at a health care facility.

Amended at 10 Ok Reg 631, eff 1-1-93 (emergency); Amended at 10 Ok Reg 1717, eff 6-1-93; Amended at 21 Ok Reg 1041, eff 5-13-04