Worker Health Experts Urge OSHA To Rapidly Issue Infectious Disease Rule Due To Ebola Crisis

Industrial health experts are urgently calling on OSHA, and also taking their case directly to the White House, to move forward as rapidly as possible on a rulemaking to tackle infectious diseases in health care settings -- pressure that follows close on the heels of at least two U.S. health workers testing positive for the Ebola virus. An official with the American Industrial Hygiene Association (AIHA), which is spearheading the profession's call for a long-sought rule on the subject, tells...