When Fed-OSHA decided in 2004 to drop rulemaking on a standard to protect health care and other workers from tuberculosis, California organizations asked Cal/OSHA to work on a standard of its own. What has evolved is a comprehensive standard protecting hospitals, emergency response, homeless shelters and other workplaces from so-called "aerosol transmissible diseases." The standard is getting close to the formal rulemaking stage. Cal-OSHA Reporter
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