Update: TB regulations from California.
As might be expected, the California Occupational Safety and Health Administration (Cal OSHA) has taken the lead in issuing regulations to protect healthcare workers from occupational TB infection. CHEM believes the Cal OSHA regulations will provide a template for the general shape of regulations that will be issued by other states and federal OSHA. Therefore, the regulations are printed here in full, along with the resolution of the California State Assembly that empowered Cal OSHA to issue the regulations. Some references to other sections of the California Code of Regulations have been deleted. CHEM's comments are at the end.
D002140:California; D003140:Communicable Disease Control / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence*; D005161:Facility Regulation and Control / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence; D006282:Health Personnel / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence*; D006801:Humans; D016273:Occupational Exposure / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence*; D013219:State Government; D014376:Tuberculosis / Q000517:prevention & control* / Q000635:transmission; D014481:United States; D014489:United States Occupational Safety and Health Administration