What Are Routine Practices?
Routine Practices are methods used regularly to protect ourselves when there is potential to come in contact with blood or body fluids from others. We cannot always tell if a person has an infection, such as human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) or hepatitis B so we must treat all blood and body fluids as potentially infectious. Body fluids can include feces, urine, vomitus, nasal secretions, sputum, and saliva, whether or not they contain visible blood. Extra precautions beyond routine practices may need to be used with certain fluids.
