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What’s Up with Bodily Fluids in New York?

11 Mar, 2025 Frank Ferreri

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Do You Know the Rule?

There are some workers whose line of work involves the risk of coming in contact with people's blood or other bodily fluids. Such a happening can present a workplace injury, and the Empire State has rules regarding how compensation works when a public safety officer experiences such an exposure. Subscribers to Simply Research can find those rules along with others regarding liability for compensation in New York and across the country.

Rules on N.Y. Public Safety Workers, Blood, & Bodily Fluids

Where a public safety worker in the course of performing her duties, is exposed to the blood or other bodily fluids of another individual, the executive officer of the appropriate ambulance, fire or police district may authorize such public safety worker to obtain the care and treatment, including diagnosis, recommended medicine, and other medical care needed to ascertain whether the worker was exposed to or contracted a communicable disease, and such care and treatment is the responsibility of the insurance carrier of the appropriate ambulance, fire or police district or, if a public safety worker was not so exposed in the course of performing her duties for such a district, then the worker shall be covered for the treatment by the carrier of her employer when the worker is acting in the scope of her employment.

Glossary Check

Under New York law, "public safety officers" include but are not limited to a firefighter, emergency medical technician, police officer, correction officer, civilian employee of the department of corrections and community supervision or other person employed by the state to work within a correctional facility maintained by the department of corrections and community supervision, driver and medical observer,

The term "public safety worker" shall include persons who act for payment or who act as volunteers in an organized group such as a rescue squad, police department, correctional facility, ambulance corps, fire department, or fire company.

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