“Personnel should assume that the blood and other body fluids from all people are potentially infectious.  They should therefore follow infection control precautions at all times.  These precautions include the routine use of barriers when anticipating contact with blood or body fluids.”
~ CDC Report, February 15, 2002

“Hepatitis B Virus (HBV) has been demonstrated to survive in dried blood at room temperature on environmental surfaces for a least one week.” 
~ Updated U.S. Public Health Service Guidelines for Management of Occupational Exposures to HBV, HCV, HIV and Recommendations for Post Exposure Prophylaxis.” June, 2001

   “It’s contact with bacteria indoors that puts people’s health at risk.  Health should be an automatic with cleaning – you put things in their proper place, remove exposure to harmful things, and health improves.  If you’re cleaning properly, you reach a sanitary state.” 
~ From Contracting Profits, January, 2003.  Dr. Michael Berry, PHD is Senior Research Associate, Center for Global Business Research ~ University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

   “It is the employer’s responsibility to determine which job classifications or specific tasks and procedures involve occupational exposure.  For example, the employer must determine whether employees can come into contact with blood during the normal handling of such products from initial pickup through disposal in the outgoing trash.  If OSHA determines, on a case-by-case basis, that sufficient evidence exists of reasonably anticipated exposure, the employer will be held responsible for providing the protections of 29 CFR 1910.1030 to the employees with occupational exposure.” 
~ Ruth McCully, Director – Office of Health Compliance Assistance, U.S. Department of Labor, Occupational Safety & Health Administration, “Blood Borne Pathogen Standard’s Application to Feminine Hygiene Products.”  October 8, 1992.

  “OSHA expects feminine hygiene products to be discarded into waste containers which are properly lined with plastic or wax paper bags.  Such bags should protect the employees from physical contact with the contents.  At the same time, it is the employer’s responsibility to determine the existence of regulated waste.  This determination is not based on actual volume of blood, but rather on the potential to release blood, (e.g., when compacted in the waste container).  If OSHA determines, on a case-by-case basis, that sufficient evidence of regulated waste exists, either through observation, (e.g., a pool of liquid in the bottom of a container, dried blood flaking off during handling), or based on employee interviews, citations may be issued.”
~ U.S. Department of Labor, Occupational Safety & Health Administration, “Most Frequently asked Questions Concerning the Blood Borne Pathogens Standard”, February 1, 1993. 

“We clean for safety and to ensure sanitation and health.  However, we clean environments primarily to reduce exposures of humans and valuable materials to harmful substances and conditions.” 
“In considering the various forms of cleaning we see the common theme of reducing exposures and putting unwanted things in their proper place.” 
“Many of our greatest environmental risks are related to the way buildings are mismanaged, specifically in the absence or breakdown in cleaning processes.” 
“Cleaning is the process of putting things harmful to the environment or its human population in their proper place where they cannot cause harm.  Put simply, when cleaning, we must remove pollutants.  The more pollutants we remove, the more effective our cleaning is and the better it protects our health.  Sooner or later, a pollutant left anywhere in the built environment will get in the way.”

~ Dr. Michael Berry, “Cleaning is a Science”, 2001.