SafetyManager's "Tuberculosis in the Healthcare Environment"
Regulatory Compliance Kit™ includes the changes in respiratory
protection requirements. The Kit is designed to assist
facilities and operations whose employees have a risk
of exposure to Tuberculosis. The Kit also helps employees
understand the nature of the disease, as well as what
they can do to protect themselves from infection. Early
in 1996 OSHA issued Tuberculosis Directives that enforce
the 1994 Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
Tuberculosis Prevention Guidelines, and allow for the
wearing of new classes of NIOSH approved respirators/masks
as well as HEPA masks.
Materials
in the Kit include a Videotape Program, five motivational
Posters, and 30 Employee Booklets. The Posters in the
Kit remind employees about the dangers of Tuberculosis.
The Videotape and Employee Booklets include information
on history of tuberculosis as a disease, epidemiology
and symptoms of tuberculosis, modes by which tuberculosis
is transmitted, the CDC guidelines, the exposure control
plan, recognition of exposure situations, practices to
prevent exposure, administrative and engineering controls,
selection and use of personal protective equipment (including
respirators), and more. The Videotape Program in the Kit
comes with a comprehensive Leader's Guide, reproducible
Scheduling & Attendance Form, Employee Quiz, Training
Certificate and Training Log.
Topics covered in this kit include:
