U.S. Department of Labor
US Labor Department's OSHA issues compliance directive to address flu prevention for health care workers
Published in Vaccine Weekly, December 9th, 2009
For the protection of frontline health care and emergency medical workers at high risk of infection, the U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) issued a compliance directive to ensure uniform procedures when conducting inspections to identify and minimize or eliminate high to very high risk occupational exposures to the 2009 H1N1 influenza A virus.The directive, which closely follows the Centers for Disease Control's (CDC) guidance at http://www.cdc.gov/h1n1flu, is available online at https://www.osha.gov/OshDoc/Directive_pdf/CPL_02_02-075.pdf.
"OSHA has a responsibility to ensure that the more than nine million frontline health...
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Source: Vaccine Weekly (2009-12-09)
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