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Lodi Unified School District

Policy 5141.23 - Infectious Disease Prevention

Series: 5000 - Students

Policy: 5141.23 - Infections Disease Prevention

Adopted: 06/02/1998

Last Revised: 09/21/2004 (technical revision)

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Infectious Disease Prevention

The Board of Education recognizes its responsibility to consistently take precautions to prevent the spread of infectious diseases. A comprehensive approach to disease prevention requires the cooperation of the home and the community.

All students and employees shall be informed of the universal precautions to be used whenever anyone is exposed to blood or other body fluids through injury, illness, or accident. Science laboratory instruction shall be designed to protect students from contact with body fluids and with contaminated needles, sharps and other objects.

Legal References

Education Code
49403 Cooperation in control of communicable disease and immunization of pupils
51202 Instruction in personal and public health and safety
 
Government Code Code of Regulations, Title 8
5193 California Bloodborne Pathogens Standard
 
Code of Regulations, Title 17
2500-2508 Communicable disease reporting requirements
 
Management Resources
CDE Program Advisories
0509.86 AIDS Guidelines
1016.89 Guidelines for Informing School Employees about Preventing the Spread of Infectious Diseases, including Hepatitis B and AIDS/HIV
Infections and Policies for Dealing with HIV-Infected Persons in School Settings
 
Board Policy
1020 - Youth Services
4119.42 - Exposure Control Plan for Bloodborne Pathogens
4119.43 - Universal Precautions
5141.1 - Accidents
5141.31 - Immunizations
6142.2 - Sexual Health and HIV/AIDS Prevention Instruction
6145.2 - Interscholastic Competition

Rule 5141.23

Control of Science Laboratory Lessons

Before a class works with blood or blood products, the teacher must explain the potentially hazardous nature of blood, emphasizing the fact that through blood, various agents can be transmitted from one person to another. Before and after doing laboratory work, students must always wash hands with soap and water, dry hands, and cover any existing cut, wound, or open sore with a sterile dressing. The following techniques also must be used when students are working with human blood:

  1. Specific procedures and safety precautions shall be explained carefully before starting each laboratory exercise.
  2. Wherever possible, blood typing experiments shall be conducted by teacher demonstrations rather than being performed by individual students.
  3. Students always shall work with their own blood, or shall use prepackaged ABO/Rh blood cell kits that have vials of blood previously tested for transmissible agents.
  4. Students shall use individual sterile lancets for finger punctures, and lancets must not be reused.
  5. Before the finger is punctured, it shall be wiped with a piece of cotton that has been immersed in alcohol.
  6. If bleeding persists after the finger is punctured, the student shall apply a sterile bandage using moderate pressure.
  7. Large beakers of a solution consisting of one part bleach to ten parts water (1:10) shall be placed throughout the room. Lancets and any other materials with blood on them must be discarded into the solution. Solution shall be made fresh each day.
  8. At the end of the class, laboratory desks shall be wiped with alcohol or 1:10 dilution of bleach.

Techniques similar to the above shall be used when working with any other body fluids.