In the safeguard of the public health, every person while engaged in the actual preparation of a dead human body shall be attired in a clean and sanitary smock or gown and shall wear protective gloves. When a smock or gown has been worn in the preparation of a body, it shall not be worn again before being laundered. No sheets, linens, materials, or supplies of any kind, which shall have come in contact with a dead human body, shall be used more than once without being laundered. Such materials shall be kept in a covered container until laundered. All instruments and appliances used in the preparation of a body shall be thoroughly cleansed and sterilized immediately at the conclusion of each individual case and stored in an enclosed cabinet or drawer.
21 N.C. Admin. Code 34B .0704
Eff. February 1, 1976;
Readopted Eff. September 27, 1977;
Amended Eff. September 1, 1979;
Pursuant to G.S. 150B-21.3A, rule is necessary without substantive public interest Eff. August 19, 2017.
Eff. February 1, 1976;
Readopted Eff. September 27, 1977;
Amended Eff. September 1, 1979.