What Can a Program Do To Promote Workplace Safety?
No program which hopes to be effective can evade its legal and ethical obligations to provide a safe workplace. At the same time, it would be unrealistic to expect a field that routinely operates on shoestring budgets to be able to discharge those obligations without outside help. Outside help — though constrained by the harsh budgetary realities of the mid-1990s — can be secured through collaboration with local or State public health departments. With or without outside help, all programs should strive to develop TB workplace safety protocols that include the following features.
