Ohio Administrative Code › Title 3349 - Northeast Ohio Medical University › Chapter 3349-10 - Campus Safety › Section 3349-10-50 - Exposure to infectious disease rule

Current through all regulations passed and filed through July 1, 2024
(A)
								Purpose
The purpose of this rule is to protect
				employees, volunteers, and students within the university environment against
				the exposure and transmission of infectious disease, to prevent the inadvertent
				transmission of infectious disease to patients by ensuring expert and safe
				patient care, and to provide a safe work environment.
(B)
								Scope
This rule applies to all students,
				employees, and volunteers within the university environment or educational
				experiences at clinical sites.
(C)
								Definitions
(1)
									 "Admission" is
			 the process of allowing entry into any one of the university's academic
			 programs.
(2)
									"Carrier" is a person who harbors the micro-organisms
			 causing a particular disease without experiencing signs or symptoms of
			 infection, but who can transmit the disease to others.
(3)
									"Employee" is any
			 faculty, staff, or student assistant of the university.
(4)
									"HBV" is the
			 hepatitis B virus. For reporting purposes, HBV is defined as hepatitis B virus
			 with hepatitis B-antigen positive status.
(5) "HCV" is the hepatitis C virus.
(6)
									"HIV" is the
			 human immunodeficiency virus which attacks the immune system and may cause
			 acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS). The virus is transmitted through
			 sexual contact and exposure to infected bodily fluids and perinatally from
			 mother to baby.
(7)
									"Infectious Disease" is any disease that can be
			 transmitted, whether via bodily fluids, direct physical contact, or common
			 handling of an object that has been contaminated by infective micro-organisms
			 through a disease carrier or by infected droplets coughed or exhaled into the
			 air.
(8)
									"Matriculate" is the process of enrolling as a member
			 in an academic program.
(9)
									"Risk Sufficient to Exclude" is a significant risk of
			 infection that poses serious consequences for persons within the university
			 environment and which may only be eliminated or contained by the exclusion of
			 the source of risk from the environment.
(10) "Senior Executive Director, Academic
			 Affairs and Student Services" oversees academic support and student support
			 services at university.
(11)
									"Student" is any person accepted into the university's
			 colleges of graduate studies, medicine, or pharmacy.
(12) "Student Health and Immunization
			 Committee" is a select group of university faculty, administrative
			 representatives from each college, and invited external clinicians, one of whom
			 is an infectious disease physician, responsible for advising, recommending, and
			 approving decisions regarding student insurance, student immunizations, and
			 student health issues such as infectious diseases and exposures.
(13)
									"University
			 Environment" includes the university Rootstown campus and university
			 educational sites.
(14)
									"Volunteer" is any person who is working in an "unpaid"
			 status on the university Rootstown campus. This may include graduate students
			 involved in teaching and/or research in one of the university's research
			 laboratories.
(15)
									"Volunteer Setting" is the normally assigned setting
			 where volunteer work is to be performed.