A. All agencies and organizations that regularly employ emergency medical technicians, paramedics, firefighters, peace officers, as defined in Section 648 of Title 21 of the Oklahoma Statutes, correctional officers and employees, or health care workers, all mental health or intellectual disability treatment or evaluation programs that employ persons involved with providing care for patients, the J.D. McCarty Center for Children with Developmental Disabilities, and all juvenile institutions of the Department of Human Services shall implement the universal precautions for the prevention of the transmission of communicable diseases published by the Centers for Disease Control, U.S. Public Health Service, in the Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, Volume 36, Number 2S or as subsequently amended.

B. The State Commissioner of Health shall promulgate rules and guidelines that will implement a system of notification of emergency medical technicians, paramedics, firefighters, health care workers, funeral directors, peace officers, and any person who in good faith renders aid in accordance with the Good Samaritan Act relating to risk exposures during health care activities, emergency response activities or funeral preparations. Risk exposure shall be defined by the State Commissioner of Health to be exposure that is epidemiologically demonstrated to have the potential for transmitting a communicable disease.

C. The Board of Mental Health and Substance Abuse Services, Department of Human Services, Oklahoma Cerebral Palsy Commission, and State Board of Corrections shall each promulgate rules, guidelines or policies to provide for such notification of risk exposures to persons employed by such agencies.

Added by Laws 1988, c. 153, § 1, eff. Jan. 1, 1989. Amended by Laws 1992, c. 307, § 14, eff. July 1, 1992; Laws 2013, c. 246, § 1, eff. Nov. 1, 2013; Laws 2019, c. 475, § 52, eff. Nov. 1, 2019.