OH HB733

Expands coverage under Ohio Revised Code section 4123.026 to include detention facility personnel and corrections officers exposed to blood or bodily fluids in the course of employment.

Requires the Workers' Compensation Administrator or self-insuring employers to pay for post-exposure medical diagnostic services to determine if an injury or occupational disease resulted from exposure to another person's blood or bodily fluids.

Covers three types of exposure: splash or spatter in eyes or mouth (including during mouth-to-mouth resuscitation), puncture wounds to skin, and cuts or openings in skin such as sores, wounds, lesions, abrasions, or ulcers.

Establishes definitions for corrections officers as detention facility employees and detention facilities as any public or private place used to confine persons charged with or convicted of crimes, or alleged or found to be delinquent or unruly children.

Repeals existing section 4123.026 and replaces it with the amended version that extends protections to detention facility workers previously covered only for peace officers, firefighters, and emergency medical workers.