Legal Documents of Mountain City

Code of Mountain City

Mountain City
Title 4 : Municipal Personnel
Chapter 3 : Infectious Disease Control Policy

4-316 : Needle sticks.

Needle sticks, like any other puncture wound, are considered injuries for record keeping purposes due to the instantaneous nature of the event. Therefore, any needle stick requiring medical treatment (i.e., gamma globulin, hepatitis B immune globulin, hepatitis B vaccine, etc.) shall be recorded. (Ord. #1426, April 2015)