Test your knowledge of infectious diseases. Click below to see answers.

1. Are employers required to provide training for infectious disease hazards?
   1. Yes. OSHA requires employers to provide training for workers for bloodborne pathogens, along with personal protective equipment related to work hazards (such as but not limited to infectious diseases).
   2. No. Employees receive some information about infectious diseases in most OSHA standards already.
2. Can employers provide and allow surgical masks to be voluntarily worn when respiratory protection is not required?
   1. Yes, OSHA permits employers to provide and allow the voluntary use of surgical masks even when exposure assessments determine respiratory protection is not required.
   2. No. No other masks can be worn in lieu of respiratory protection.
3. The OSHA respiratory protection standard applies to which of the following airborne contaminant exposures?
   1. Where employees are exposed to a hazardous level of an airborne contaminant
   2. Where required by the employer at their discretion
   3. Where employees are permitted to wear respirators
   4. All of the above
4. Is COVID-19 the only infectious disease from which employers are required to protect workers?
   1. Yes. Because of a world-wide pandemic, employers are required to protect workers from COVID-19, but not other contagious diseases.
   2. No. Employers must protect workers from all serious, recognized infectious diseases in the workplace that may cause severe illness or death, including COVID-19, monkeypox, tuberculosis, bloodborne pathogens, etc.