Tuberculosis in the workplace: a labor perspective

It was not until several health care unions petitioned OSHA for a bloodborne pathogen standard in 1986 that OSHA began to play a major role in regulating the health care industry. The authors examine the Service Employees International Union's current effort to urge OSHA to develop a standard to protect workers from occupational exposure to TB. They also cover ramifications of the CDC's revised guidelines for preventing the transmission of TB in health care settings.