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Your employer will put into place safe work practices, procedures, tools, and equipment (controls) to help guide and protect you from bloodborne pathogens. Learn your employer's controls. Then follow them to protect yourself.

Suddenly you're faced with an accident on the job. With a quick study of the situation, you can decide how best to handle it. Before you help, take the right steps to protect yourself and others from infection from bloodborne pathogens.

Whether or not housekeeping is a regular part of your job, at some time you might be involved in cleaning up after an accident. Correct cleaning of the accident site keeps blood or body fluids away from yourself and others. Read on to learn more.

Bloodborne pathogens are disease-causing germs carried in blood or other body fluids. If blood or body fluids have touched your eyes, mouth, nose, or any other opening or break in your skin, you've been involved in an exposure incident. Here's what you need to know.

An audiometric test measures how well you hear. It's quick and painless. The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) and your employer may require this test each year. Follow through with it. You can't "fail" a hearing test. The test results just help your employer know whether more hearing protection is required.

How much do you know about protecting your hearing? Take the quiz to find out.

In hot environments, your body may have trouble keeping its temperature at a safe level. As a result, your body temperature rises to unsafe levels. This is heat stress. Heat stress can develop quickly. It can also be very dangerous to your health.

Even severe heat stress can appear suddenly, so learn the warning signs and how to treat them.

If you don't use a respirator, respiratory hazards can damage your respiratory system.