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Union Survey on Influenza Pandemic Finds Lack of Adequate Health and Safety Measures for Health Care Workers
Date:4/30/2009

ers, one of the fundamental elements of protecting workers from occupational hazards.
  • One-third of the facilities have yet to develop a written plan for responding to pandemic flu.
  • Only 54 percent of the facilities have identified health care workers who will be at some risk of occupational exposure to the pandemic flu virus.

    • "In order to provide care for patients infected with pandemic flu and protect health care worker from exposure, plans for safety and health issues should be made before the flu arrives," McEntee said.

    The report recommends that employers prepare now by identifying health care workers who will provide care for infected patients, implement worker training and secure adequate supplies of antiviral drugs and vaccine. A vital aspect of worker protection will be the use of personal protective equipment (PPE) -- the respirators, gowns, gloves, face shields, eye protection and other equipment by health care workers in their patient care responsibilities.

    A numbers of government actions are recommended in the report to address the problem of protecting health care workers, including: a mandatory workplace standard issued by OSHA that broadly addresses airborne transmissible disease; a request that Congress identify a mechanism to assure that public health care facilities not cover by the OSHAct -- such as hospitals, nursing home and Veterans Administration hospitals in certain states -- be required to comply with the provisions of an OSHA airborne transmissible disease standard; and a requirement that state and public health departments strengthen the worker health and safety elements of their state pandemic influenza plans.

    McEntee praised President Obama's quick response to the current flu outbreak, including the administration's request for $1.5 billion in supplemental funding. "State and local governments are going t
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