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Protecting employees from potentially infectious diseases: Answers

  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. Yes. OSHA permits employers to provide and allow the voluntary use of surgical masks even when exposure assessments determine respiratory protection is not required.
  3. All of the above.
  4. 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.