Ban on TB fit-testing is now officially over

Hi everyone, it’s Scott Wallask checking in from HCPro.

It appears the dissolution of the annual tuberculosis fit-testing prohibition is now official, as President Bush signed the fiscal year 2008 budget for labor and health and human services in late December. A record of the bill–numbered H.R. 2764–indicates it is now public law.

OSHA’s budget falls under this bill. In prior years, it was within this area of the budget that you’d find the prohibition of OSHA enforcing annual TB fit-testing. But that prohibition isn’t in the current budget’s wording, which brings to an end a several-year ban on such fit-tests.

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Scott Wallask

swallask@hcpro.com