California Can’t Use Federal Funds for Tuberculosis Fit-Testing Enforcement

By: Cal-OSHA Reporter - The leading occupational safety and health publication in California.

While work continues in California on a respiratory protection standard covering airborne infectious diseases, the Division of Occupational Safety and Health (DOSH) is enforcing recent revisions to the General Industry Safety Orders that place health care facilities under the same respiratory protection requirements as other workplaces.But a provision in last year's federal budget appropriation means that if DOSH wants to ensure that hospitals and other health care organizations are co

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