Health Hazard Evaluation Report: HETA-93-0846-2386: Providence Ambulatory Health Care Foundation, Inc., Central Health Care Center; Providence, Rhode Island

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• Personal Author:
  Burton, Nancy C.
• Corporate Authors:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Description:
  In response to a request from the Providence Ambulatory Health Care Foundation (SIC-8011), an investigation was begun into the ventilation system at the Central Health Care Center, Providence, Rhode Island, and the suitability of the system for minimizing tuberculosis transmission. The facility had 31 full time staff and up to 10 working part time as physicians, dentists and laboratory workers. The building was served by four single zone, heating ventilating, and air conditioning package units on the roof as well as an additional air conditioning unit for perimeter offices, laboratory, and conference room. The units were operated in an automatic mode which resulted in no supply air being delivered to the examination rooms and laboratory when the temperature set points on the system were reached. In some of the enclosed offices there were no supply diffusers to provide supply air. A tuberculin screening program was in place for clients but none for employees. The author concludes that the deficiencies noted in the ventilation system could increase the risk of tuberculosis transmission and cause other indoor environment problems. The author recommends specific measures to correct these deficiencies along with steps to strengthen the control program for preventing the spread of tuberculosis.
• Subjects:
  Air Pollution, Indoor Bacterial Infections Communicable Diseases Environmental Health Health Personnel Occupational Health Safety Tuberculosis
• Keywords:
  Bacterial-infections Hazard-Confirmed Health-care-personnel HETA-93-0846-2386 Indoor-air-pollution Indoor-environmental-quality Infection-control Infectious-diseases NIOSH-Author NIOSH-Health-Hazard-Evaluation NIOSH-Technical-Assistance-Report Offices And Clinics Of Doctors Of Medicine OSHA Region 1 TB Tuberculosis Ventilation

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• Series:
  Health Hazard Evaluation Reports (HHE)
• Subseries:
  Health Evaluation and Technical Assistance (HETA)
• DOI:
  https://doi.org/10.26616/NIOSHHETA9308462386
• Publisher:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Document Type:
  Text
• Genre:
  Field Study
• Place as Subject:
  Rhode Island ; OSHA Region 1
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Division:
  DSHEFS - Division of Surveillance, Hazard Evaluations, and Field Studies
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  16 pdf pages
• Contributor:
  Sylvain, David C.
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:00219672
• NTIS Accession Number:
  PB94-183423
• Citation:
  Cincinnati, Ohio: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Public Health Service, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, HETA 93-0846-2386, 1994 Feb ; :1-17
• Editor(s):
  Blythe, Ellen E.
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  1994
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• NAICS and SIC Codes:
  8011 - Offices & clinics of medical doctors - (SIC)
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:c1094adbb1103b4dc54a101ce4be81f2cf5202f99c6b9f3f1b5fe9e067b67ad0b7a33bb0b678212cb3b82b11bcc492281912dbbd11d977fd1a12dff7d3da10cf
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/171382/cdc_171382_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 200.78 KB ]