So when did a nosebleed become a major hazmat event?

[Ricochet]

Originally posted by: Descartes
It seems the litigious culture of America demands a histrionic response to anything to avoid being put in a position of liability.

imo.

You nailed it on the head.

 

[episodic]

meanwhile larry is peeing in the pool wondering what is going on.

 

[dxkj]

I think they did a good job... I dont think it is over-reacting. You have to treat the issue in a worse case scenario to protect yourselves and all the people in the pool. If the kid was too young to take care of his own bloody nose, he shoulda had someone there supervising who could have helped him... its not the life guards job to get up close and personal with a bleeding kid.

 

[Lonyo]

Everyone has AIDS!
AIDS AIDS AIDS!
AIDS AIDS AIDS AIDS AIDS AIDS!
Everyone has AIDS!

And so this is the end of our story
And everyone is dead from AIDS
It took from me my best friend
My only true pal
My only bright star (he died of AIDS)

Well I'm gonna march on Washington
Lead the fight and charge the brigades
There's a hero inside of all of us
I'll make them see everyone has AIDS

My father (AIDS!)
My sister (AIDS!)
My uncle and my cousin and her best friend (AIDS AIDS AIDS!)
The gays and the straights
And the white and the spades

Everyone has AIDS!
My grandma and my dog 'ol blue (AIDS AIDS AIDS)
The pope has got it and so do you (AIDS AIDS AIDS AIDS AIDS)
C'mon everybody we got quilting to do (AIDS AIDS AIDS AIDS AIDS)
We gotta break down these baricades, everyone has
AIDS! x 20

 

[sygyzy]

Ever since Magic Johnson got HIV.

 

[Krazefinn]

Hiv is not the only concern. There are half-dozen common hepatic virii that are MUCH more easily transmissible than AIDS virus.

ALthough worldwide more than 10% of ALL people (some populations MUCH higher) have some serious bloodborne pathogen.

 

[Eli]

Originally posted by: FleshLight

Originally posted by: mchammer

Originally posted by: Eli
lol

You don't even want to know the processes followed at Intel when there is blood. Well, if it gets on anything ayway.

Intel as in MPU fabrication plants??

<-Curious!

ha, I wish. 😛 Nah. I'm sure the proceedures are similar all over Intel, but I work in the retail box packaging department.

 

[TallBill]

Cant have AIDS flying around.

 

[Injury]

I would really hate to say that the rest of my life is going to miserable because some kid got a nosebleed while I was a lifeguard.

Who cares about the kid's feelings, he'll be just fine in a few hours.

 

[xanis]

A hazmat bag doesn't mean that the situation was a big "hazmat event". The hazmat bag is just something that they put items with bodily fluid in so it gets properly disposed of. You asked why they used gloves? Come on, that's common sense, isn't it? Also, the reason you can't use just plain poolwater to disinfect the area is that chlorine is not rated to kill the HIV virus. There are disinfectants that are used to kill the HIV virus. None of this really constituted a "major hazmat event". It was just employees doing their job. You or some of the other parents might not have cared about the nose bleed, and knew that the kid did not have HIV. However, there could have been one wacko parent that might have thought differently. Those are the people you have to be careful of, and that is why the lifegaurds took all of those precautions.

EDIT: This comes from working in housekeeping and having a father who is a manager of a housekeeping department at a hospital, so I can actually say I know my stuff.

 

[j00fek]

the times, oh they have changed in recent years

 

[Krazefinn]

Yeah, the goodoledaysofsportfvcking long gone...

 

[Rock Hydra]

Originally posted by: Descartes
It seems the litigious culture of America demands a histrionic response to anything to avoid being put in a position of liability.

imo.

Yeah, I'm thinking the same thing.