Body Art Training Group Approved as Provider of Bloodborne Pathogens Training

Santa Ana, CA, May 27, 2012 --(PR.com)-- The Body Art Training Group announced today that it has been designated as an Approved Provider of Bloodborne Pathogen Exposure Control Training by the Health Care Agency, County of Orange, California. This approval is for both online and classroom training.

The County of Orange requires all body art practitioners to take bloodborne pathogens training. Tattoo artists, body piercers, and permanent cosmetics technicians can now satisfy this requirement by taking the Body Art Training Group's online course “Bloodborne Pathogens Training and Infection Control for Body Art Professionals.”

This course also complies with OSHA’s initial and annual bloodborne pathogens training requirements. After successful completion of this course, a Certificate of Completion can be immediately printed.

In person classes are also available. Kathy Hartman, an instructor at the Body Art Training Group, gives in-shop classes on bloodborne pathogens and on developing a body art shop Exposure Control and Infection Prevention Plan.

Since 2008, the Body Art Training Group, http://www.bodyarttraininggroup.com, has offered on-site bloodborne pathogens training for body art professionals. These courses provide training as required by OSHA's Bloodborne Pathogens Standard 29 CFR 1910.1030 and California's Safe Body Art Act (AB 300).

In 2010, the Body Art Training Group began offering classes online.

These online classes are specifically designed for the body art industry and are suitable for all types of body art professionals: tattoo artists, body piercers, permanent cosmetics technicians, electrologists, and body modification practitioners.