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Maintain the exposure-control plan and the sharps/exposure-incident log with post-exposure follow-up.

This module covers the two OSHA 1910.1030 obligations: an exposure-control plan that gets reviewed at least annually, and an exposure-incident (sharps-injury) log with post-exposure medical follow-up.

Keep the exposure-control plan current

  1. Under Exposure-control plans, pick a site and click Create plan.
  2. Each plan shows its last-reviewed date and next-due date (annual); an overdue plan flags with an overdue badge.
  3. Click Mark reviewed when you complete the annual review to reset the clock.

Document the safer-sharps device evaluation

The annual review must also document that you considered safer engineered sharps devices and asked frontline staff about their selection — that gets its own annual clock:

  1. Click Device evaluation… on the plan row.
  2. Note the devices considered or selected, tick frontline input documented if you gathered non-managerial staff input, and click Save evaluation.
  3. The plan's Device evaluation column shows the last evaluation date — overdue (red) once a year passes, or a green frontline input badge when documented.

Log an exposure incident

  1. Fill in the Record an exposure form: employee, job title, date, exposure type (needlestick, other sharps, mucous membrane, non-intact skin, or other), the device or sharp involved, body part, and work area.
  2. Add how it occurred, then click Record exposure. The incident joins the exposure incidents / sharps log — this list is your 1910.1030(h)(5) sharps-injury log.
  3. For a needlestick or other-sharps exposure, the system also opens the OSHA recordkeeping case automatically — 29 CFR 1904.8 makes contaminated-sharps injuries recordable as privacy cases — and the row's 300 log column links to it.

Complete post-exposure follow-up

  • A new incident opens with follow-up open. Click Eval done when the post-exposure evaluation is complete, and Follow-up done to close out the medical follow-up.
  • Click CAPA to open a corrective action to prevent recurrence — for example switching to a safer engineered sharp. You can name an owner and due date right there; once raised, the row links to that CAPA.

Export the sharps log

Click Export sharps log CSV above the list to download the 1910.1030(h)(5) log. The export is deliberately de-identified (no employee names), so it can be produced on request as-is.

What happens automatically

  • An exposure-control plan whose annual review is overdue escalates by notification.
  • A safer-sharps device evaluation that hasn't been documented in the past year escalates too, to the plan's reviewer (or the Safety Team).
  • An exposure incident whose post-exposure follow-up is still open escalates too, so medical follow-up doesn't quietly stall.
  • Sharps exposures open their OSHA 300-log privacy case at record time (29 CFR 1904.8) — the sharps log and the 300 log can't drift apart.

Tip: filter the log by Site, and record the device type consistently (the sharps/device-type reference list helps) so you can spot which sharps drive injuries.

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