E Establishing standards for employer activities to reduce occupational exposure to bloodborne pathogens through sharps injuries; requiring employers to comply with certain federal regulations to eliminate or minimize employee exposure; requiring written exposure control plans prepared by employers to be annually reviewed for certain changes in technology, to reflect new or modified tasks and procedures affecting occupational exposures and new or revised employee positions with occupational exposure and to document consideration and implementation of commercially available and effective engineering controls for eliminating or minimizing exposure; requiring safety committees to make advisory recommendations for effective engineering controls, requiring a certain portion of the members of the safety committees to be employee representatives of job classifications encountering devices in the category evaluated, authorizing employers to establish subcommittees of safety committees with the same membership representation to meet the requirements, employers not required to establish safety committees to involve employees in evaluation of the controls; temporarily allowing the use of prefilled syringes approved by the federal food and drug administration (FDA); requiring employers to establish internal procedures to document exposure, specifying certain content requirements (mk, ja)