Okla. Stat. tit. 63, § 63-1-502.1: Communicable diseases - Universal precautions - Rules

and regulations - Risk exposure.

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.