Your employer may make it a policy to clean and disinfect the tagger needles after each use.
There are several ways to control tagger gun needlestick exposure risks. Your employer may adopt a tagger use policy under a bloodborne pathogen program (BBP) subject to Cal/OSHA standards or the Injury and Illness Prevention Program (IIPP). Either way, there is a “reasonably anticipated exposure to blood” with a tagger and your employer is responsible for controlling this hazard. In the retail industry tagger guns are used less frequently. In the garment manufacturing or processing industry or other manufacturing settings there is very frequent use of a tagging gun. If this happens, you have been exposed to the blood of other workers and any potential bloodborne pathogens that may be in their blood such as hepatitis B and HIV. You are at risk of a bloodborne pathogen exposure if you and others use the same tagging gun and also get stuck accidentally with the same needle. Workers need to know the risks of using tagging guns and needles and take precautions to avoid bloodborne pathogen exposures.Ī worker that uses a tagger gun on the job may get stuck accidentally with the needle. Tagging guns used to attach price, brand, and information tags on clothing and other goods in the garment industry and retail establishments pose a bloodborne pathogen hazard to the workers that use them if they get stuck with the needles.
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