Jay And Leigh Carlos Case Study Hepatitis Vission

In Case C, Jay and Leigh Carlos are going face-to-face with OSHA. While they feel like they are in compliance, OSHA asks for records they do not have. Jay and Leigh Carlos opened their first home for the mentally challenged. Fifteen years later, they were operating a two homes with twenty-three beds and over one-hundred employees. This home was not a skilled nursing facility and the employees, mostly licensed practical nurses, did very few injections or came in contact with blood or bodily fluids. Leigh felt that due to her medical background, she was understanding of the OSHA regulation. The OSHA regulation stated that the employer is only required to make the vaccine available to those employees having exposure to blood or bodily fluids. Due to the higher than normal employee attrition rate and the …show more content…
This policy seemed in line for OSHA regulations until Olive Stone, OSHA inspector, shows up and asks to view the company’s bloodborne pathogen policy and employee hepatitis vaccination procedure. Jay is made aware of Olive’s visit by a call from the program services director, Kris. Jay has Kris make the OSHA inspector comfortable while he contacts the company’s attorney, Fred Fleagle, who tells Jay that he should not let Olive inspect anything without a search warrant. In the meantime, Jay searches for clarification on the bloodborne pathogen policy by contacting the head of the state agency overseeing group homes for the mentally challenged. The head of the state instructed Jay that they would not go head-to-head with OSHA and told Jay he should contact Warren Belle with New Horizon Homes. Warren tells Jay that he sent OSHA away because they did not have a search warrant. OSHA came back with the search warrant and six additional OSHA inspectors. A few thousand dollar in fines later, OSHA asks Warren if he was