peeps Flashcards
An organization of professional personnel in governmental agencies or educational institutions who are employed in occupational safety and health programs.
AMERICAN CONGRESS OF GOVERNMENTAL INDUSTRIAL HYGIENISTS aka ACGIH
(1718-1783) An influential person in medical embalming who is acknowledged as the first person to successfully adopt a method of arterial injection to preserve [Scottish]
HUNTER, DR WILLIAM
A governmental agency with environmental protection regulatory and enforcement authority.
ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY aka EPA
OSHA regulation that deals with identifying and limiting exposure to occupational hazards.
HAZARD COMMUNICATION STANDARD /RULE
(1728-1793) An influential person in medical embalming for whom Hunter’s Canal is named [Scottish]
HUNTER, JOHN
The person who has the legal right/custody of the body and can choose whatever type of final disposition.
PRIMARY RIGHT OF DISPOSITION aka PRD
(1578-1657) An influential person in medical embalming who discovered the circulation of blood in 1628 [British]
HARVEY, DR WILLIAM
(1665-1717) An influential person in medical embalming who is known as the “Father of Embalming.” [Dutch]
RUYSCH, FREDERICK
Legal limits established by OSHA to which workers can be exposed continuously for a short period of time without damage or injury exposures at the STEL should not be for more than 15 minutes and not repeated more than 4 times per work day.
SHORT TERM EXPOSURE LIMIT aka STEL
a government agency in the Department of Labor to maintain a safe and healthy work environment
OSHA - Occupational Safety and Health Administration
(1791-1882) An influential person in medical embalming who was the first to make embalming available to the public and who also wrote the first embalming text (first printing in French) [French]
GANNAL, JEAN
(1828-1866) One of the discoverers of formaldehyde [Russian]
BUTLEROV, ALEXANDER M
OSHA regulation limiting the amount of occupation exposure to formaldehyde gas.
FORMALDEHYDE RULE
the amount of a poison (or radiation) that will kill 50% of the group to which it has been administered.
LETHAL DOSE 50% (LD50)
Reasonably anticipated skin, eye, mucous membrane, or parenteral, contact with blood or other potentially infectious materials that may result from the performance of a worker’s duties.
OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE
International Agency for Research on Cancer
IARC
Tests and certifies respiratory protective devices and air sampling detector tubes, recommends occupational exposure limits for various substances, and assists OSHA inoccupational safety and health investigations and research.
NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY AND HEALTH NIOSH
National Toxicology Program
NTP
(1817-1900) An influential person in medical embalming who is regarded as the “Father of Modern Embalming,” and “Father of Embalming in the United States.” [American]
HOLMES, DR. THOMAS
A major agency of the Department of Health and Human Services, with headquarters in Atlanta, Georgia, concerned with all phases of control of communicable, vector-borne, and occupational diseases.
CENTER FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION/CDCP aka CDC
Agency of federal government created in 1914 to promote free and fair competition by prevention of trade restraints, price fixing, false advertising and other unfair methods of competition
FEDERAL TRADE COMMISSION aka FTC
The smallest dose of a poison (or radiation) on record that produces death.
MINIMUM LETHAL DOSE (MLD)
An official of a local community who holds inquests concerning sudden, violent, and unexplained deaths.
CORONER
A specific eye, mouth, other mucous membrane, non-intact skin, or parenteral, contact with blood or other potentially infectious materials that results from the performance of an employee’s duties.
EXPOSURE INCIDENT
(Late 17th C.) An influential person in medical embalming who published a book about a method of embalming without evisceration [German]
CLAUDERUS, GABRIAL
(1632-1723) “Father of Bacteriology.” He made his own microscopes which were superior to any of that time He gave the first complete account of the red blood cell He demonstrated the capillary connections between arteries and veins “Father of Microbiology.” [Dutch]
VAN LEEUWENHOEK, ANTHONY
OSHA REGULATION (29CFR 1910-1030) regulating the employee’s exposure to blood and other body fluids OSHA DEFINITIONS: Blood Human blood, human blood components, and products made from human blood.
BLOODBORNE PATHOGEN RULE
An evaluation of exposures that are time-weighted over an established period It allows the exposure levels to be averaged generally over an eight-hour time period.
TIME-WEIGHED AVERAGE /TWA
These levels are established to ensure adequate protection of employees at exposures below the OSHA limits, but to minimize the compliance burdens for employers whose employees have exposures below the 8 hour permissible exposure limit (PEL) The AL for formaldehyde is 0.5 ppm.
ACTION LEVEL / AL-EXPOSURE LIMITS
Procedures that isolate or remove the bloodborne pathogen hazard from the workplace such as sharps disposal container, self-sheathing needles.
ENGINEERING CONTROLS
(1452-1519) Italian sculptor and painter produced anatomical plates; injected the arterial system for preservation of anatomical specimens.
DA VINCI, LEONARDO
The supervisor, in an institution licensed to use radionuclides, that has the responsibility to establish procedures and make recommendations in the use of all radioactive matter.
RADIATION PROTECTION OFFICER
The maximum legal limits established by osha for regulated substances these are based on employee exposure that are time-weighted over an eight-hour work shift. When these limits are exceeded, employers must take proper steps to reduce employee exposure For formaldehyde, the PEL is .75 ppm.
PERMISSIBLE EXPOSURE LIMIT aka PEL
An approach to infection control According to the concept of Universal Precautions, all.human blood and certain human body fluids are treated as if known to be infectious.
UNIVERSAL PRECAUTIONS
(1796-1843) An influential person in medical embalming who translated Gannal’s text into English and promoted embalming for sanitary purposes [American]
HARLAN, RICHARD
(1628-1694) An influential person in medical embalming who was the first to note capillary circulation and was later known as the “Father of Microscopic Anatomy.” “Father of Histology.” [Italian]
MALPIGHI, MARCELLO
